Scope and Contents
Access to Collection
Acquisition Information
Preferred Citation
Collection Note
Processing Information Note
Indexing Terms
Title: Diplomatic documents
Identifier/Call Number: M1814
Contributing Institution:
Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Language of Material:
Multiple languages
Physical Description:
0.5 Linear feet
34 manuscript documents
Date (inclusive): 1404-1781
Scope and Contents
Included are 34 diplomatic documents from Italy (predominantly), France, Spain, England, and Czechoslovakia. Of particular
note is an 1772 Papal indulgence from Olomouc, in the Czech Republic, and a 1781 letter addressed by Pope Pius VI to Scipione
de' Ricci, bishop of Pistoia-Prato, in reply to the bishop's complaint about two nuns of the Monastery of Santa Caterina who
are on the road to perdition and whose heresies and misdeeds border on the incredible.
Access to Collection
Open for research.
Acquisition Information
Purchased, 2011. Accession 2011-042.
Preferred Citation
[identification of item], Diplomatic Manuscript Documents, 1404-1781, M1814. Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University
Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Collection Note
An artificial collection created by the dealer, Bernard M. Rosenthal.
Processing Information Note
Handwritten dealer notes by Bernard Rosenthal are included with the document when they include more information than written
on each folder.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Bernard M. Rosenthal, Inc., Booksellers
Ricci, Scipione de', 1741-1810.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern).
Manuscripts, Medieval.
Paleography.
Papacy--History--Sources.
Popes--Correspondence.
Medieval and Renaissance studies--Czech Republic--18th century.
Medieval and Renaissance studies--England16th century.
Medieval and Renaissance studies--France--15th century.
Medieval and Renaissance studies--Italy--15th century.
Medieval and Renaissance studies--Italy--16th century.
Medieval and Renaissance studies--Italy--17th century.
Medieval and Renaissance studies--Italy--18th century.
Medieval and Renaissance studies--Spain16th century.