Cerri, Urbano, -1679, author. Stato della Religione Cattolica in tutto il Mondo. Per la santita di Nro Signore Innocentio XI., 1677 -

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box 1

Scope and content:

1. Bound in contemporary vellum
2. In Italian
3. In ink
4. The title page, table of contents, and the first five and one-third pages of the text are written in one hand; the remainder of the manuscript is in another hand and an index at the end of the text of nine and one-half pages, corrected with pasted strips over page numbers (contemporary).
5. It is arranged geographically.
6. Urbano Cerri was named secretary of the congregation of Propaganda Fide in 1675 and is so identified on the title.
7. Sir Richard Steele, in An account of the State of the Roman Catholic religion... London, Printed for rJ. Roberts, 1715 (Lilly BX1361 .C4), includes the dedication to Clement XI presumed to be by Bishop Benjamin Hoadly. Steele's edition was made from a copy in the library at St. Gallen and sent to England.
8. In 1716 a French edition was published in Amsterdam. Christian Gottlieb Jocher, Allegemeines Gelehrten-Lexicon... Hildesheim, 1960, supplement II, col. 220 (Lilly Z1010 .J63 v.6).
9. The translation was done by Michael de la Roche, and the dedication to the pope done by another who was better versed in ecclesiastical history than Sir Richard Steele. Biographia Brittanica. London, 1778-1793, VI, part 1, p. 3830 (Lilly DA28 .B7 v.8).
10. According to Robert Streit there are only three manuscripts of this text: one in Italian at Munich, one in Italian at Rome, and one in Italian and Spanish at Madrid.
11. The provenance of the Lilly Library manuscript is also mostly English. It carries the inscription "Payne" (18th cent.) in the upper right-hand corner on the inside of the front cover; has the armorial engraved bookplate of the bibliophile and Hellenic scholar Frederick North, 5th earl of Guilford (1766-1827), founder of the Ionian University at Corfu; and is more recently from the famous collections of Sir Thomas Phillips (Phillips ms. 7826). It was sold by Sotheby in 1913 and purchased by the Lilly Library from Lathrop C. Harper, 8 W. 40th Street, New York, New York.
12. It also bears on the title page the stamp (19th century?): "Ex Bibl. Ios. Ren. Card. Imperialis," whose identity it was not possible to trace.

Acquisition information:

Purchased. Lathrop C. Harper, 8 West 40th Street, New York, New York. 1967

Physical description:

Autograph document 123 p. 31 cm.

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