Ragguaglio della solenne comparsa, fatta in Roma, gli otto di gennaio MDCLXXXVII : dall' illustrissimo, et eccellentissimo signor conte di Castelmaine ambasciadore straordinario della Sagra Real Maestà di Giacomo Secondo rè d'Inghilterra, Scozia, Francia, et Ibernia, difensore della fede alla Santa Sede Apostolica, in andare publicamente all' vdienza della Santità di nostro signore Papa Innocenzo Vndecimo / dedicato all' altezza serenissima della duchessa di Modena da Giovanni Michele Writ maggiordomo del medesimo signor ambasciadore

Object Details

Notes

Probable year of publication from end of dedicatory letter on page 6 ("li 30. Aprile 1687").

Illustrated with engravings by A. van Westerhout, mostly after drawings by G.B. Lenardi.

Pages 87 and 88 are both printed on separate leaves, with blank versos.

CHMRB copy 39088009749383 has plates misbound in the following order: 1-8, [9], 10, 12, 11, 13-15. Also, page 88 is misbound after page 90.

CHMRB copy has provenance note on verso of title page: Gift of Prof. C.E. Norton of Cambridge; Miss Ware (exchange), Feb. 1891, [accession no.?]: 29,923; with stamps: Harvard College Library; duplicate, sold, Harvard College Library.

CHMRB copy has bookplates: 1. (laid in) Cambridge Public Library, presented by Miss Ware (exchange), Feb. 1891; 2. Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Gift of Richard Wunder.

CHMRB copy has a small engraved portrait of "The Right Hon[oura]ble Roger Earle of Castlemayne, Baron of Limbrick, etc.", from an unidentified source, laid in.

CHMRB copy has old blind-tooled full vellum binding with raised bands and red endpapers, re-backed; housed in a later slipcase of red marbled paperboard with blue cloth spine and gilt-lettered spine label.

CHMRB preservation buckram enclosures supported by the Collections Care and Preservation Fund (CCPF) in 2014.

Data Source

Smithsonian Libraries

Date

1687

[1687]

Call number

DA452 .W95X 1687

Author

Wright, John Michael approximately 1617-approximately 1694

illustrator

Lenardi, Giovanni Battista 1656-1704

engraver

Westerhout, Arnold van 1651-1725

Subject

Castlemaine, Roger Palmer Earl of 1634-1705

Catholic Church Foreign relations

Type

Early works to 1800

Pictorial works

Physical description

90 [i.e. 92] pages, [1], 15 leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations, portrait ; 35 cm (fol.)

Place

Great Britain

Italy

Rome

Title

Ragguaglio della Conte di Castelmaine di Giacomo Secondo DSI

Topic

Processions

Pageants

Carriages and carts

Record ID

siris_sil_681747

Usage

CC0