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Ranuzzi Family Ranuzzi Family: A Preliminary Inventory of Their Manuscripts at the Harry Ransom Center Descriptive Summary Creator: Ranuzzi Family Title: Ranuzzi Family Manuscripts Dates: circa 1450-1755 Extent: 623 bound volumes, 4 oversize folders Abstract: This collection contains manuscripts, printed materials, scribal copies of books, more than 100 engravings, etchings, woodcuts, and watercolor sketches, and papal bulls documenting some 400 years of the political, religious, and cultural climate of Bologna, Italy. Major subjects included in the collection are history, literature, the sciences, church and government affairs, law, geography, and numismatics. Call Number: Manuscript Collection MS-03401 Language: Italian Access: Open for research Administrative Information Acquisition: Purchase, 1968 Processed by: Maria X. Wells and John Kirkpatrick. The information in this finding aid was originally contained in a card catalog and two supplementary typescripts. These were scanned and edited into this form by Debbie Guidry and Joan Sibley. Repository: Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin Ranuzzi Family Manuscript Collection MS-03401 Scope and Contents In 1968 the Ransom Center purchased 620 volumes of manuscripts and printed matter collected by the Ranuzzi family of Bologna, Italy, that reflect some 400 years of Bolognese political, religious, and cultural life. While the collection dates from a group of medical manuscripts gathered by Antonio Ranuzzi, a physician and scholar, it was Count Vincenzo Antonio Ranuzzi (1658-1726) who was largely responsible for the formation of the Ranuzzi Library. Through the influence of his grandfather, the Marquis Ferdinando Cospi, who spent the major part of his life at the court of the Grand Dukes of Tuscany, Count Ranuzzi was received in 1671 as a Page to Prince Ferdinand de Medici. During the following six years Count Ranuzzi was educated in the sciences and humanities, enjoyed the company of learned and famous men, and began to collect manuscripts, mainly literary in nature or written to celebrate events occurring at the time. At the close of the seventeenth century, events in Europe influenced Count Ranuzzi to turn his attention to historical papers. Manuscripts on fortifications and firearms, on the Turkish wars, the capture of Buda in 1687, and the capture of Cyprus and Morea were added during the 1690s. In 1689 Count Ranuzzi's uncle, Cardinal Angelo Ranuzzi, Archbishop of Fano, Nuncio at the court of Louis XIV, and papal Legate to Poland, died en route to Rome to attend the conclave where he was expected to be elected Pope. The large library that Cardinal Ranuzzi accumulated was left to his nephew. It included papers concerning the history of the Church and letters that he had written from France and Poland, in which he described the political situations in those countries and their relations with the Italian states. From 1706 until his death in 1726, Count Ranuzzi's major goal was to increase his holdings of books and manuscripts and to catalog both the library and the family archives. In addition to the manuscripts left by members of his family, Count Ranuzzi acquired others from his friend Francesco Antonio Ghiselli, Canon of San Petronio and a renowned historian of Bologna. Most of the Ghiselli manuscripts concern the history of Bologna and its relations with several European countries and their histories. These manuscripts also contain a large number of French works translated into Italian, especially plays of the seventeenth-century authors Racine, Corneille, and Moliere. With the French occupation in 1797, the Ranuzzi family fortunes and power suffered a setback. This decline, followed by the sale of the Ranuzzi palace in 1822, resulted in the dispersal of the Ranuzzi library that culminated in 1847 with the sale of some 800 volumes to the English booksellers John Payne and Henry Foss. In London the Ranuzzi manuscripts were offered to Sir Thomas Phillipps, but before he could decide on the acquisition, the British Museum bought 117 volumes. A further 72 volumes are in the State Archives in Bologna. The remaining portion of the collection was purchased by Phillipps, from which it passed to the booksellers William H. Robinson, Inc., and in turn was offered for sale en bloc at Sotheby's in London on 25 June 1968 by the Robinson trust. The 620 volumes in the Ransom Center include manuscripts; printed materials; scribal 2 Ranuzzi Family Manuscript Collection MS-03401 The 620 volumes in the Ransom Center include manuscripts; printed materials; scribal copies of books; more than 100 engravings, etchings, woodcuts, and watercolor sketches; and papal bulls, totaling 5,354 manuscripts with an average of 200 leaves each. Major subjects include history, literature, the sciences, church and government affairs, law, geography, and numismatics. The volumes are arranged by their original Phillipps number, which span Ph 12467 to Ph 21964. Some volumes do not represent single manuscripts, but rather consist of a number of miscellaneous manuscripts bound together. Three appendices further detail the contents of three groups of these miscellaneous volumes: Ph 12705 - 12738; Ph 12739 - 12748; and Ph 12807 - 12890. An exhibition of a selection of the Ranuzzi manuscripts was presented in the Peter Flawn Academic Center from March through September 1980 and at the M.D. Anderson Library, the University of Houston, in October 1981. The exhibition and catalogue were prepared by Maria Xenia Zevelechi Wells, Curator of the Italian Collections in the Ransom Center. For further information, see: Wells, Maria Xenia Zevelechi. The Ranuzzi Manuscripts. Austin: Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, 1980. Printed catalog [pdf document]. "A Flourish of Pyres." FMR (International English Edition) 73 (April, 1995): 114-125. Abbreviations Used in the List A--Autograph T--Typed S--Signed I--Initialed Ms--Manuscript Mss--Manuscripts L--Letter FL--Form Letter N--Note D--Document C--Card PC--Post Card cc--Carbon Copy 3 Ranuzzi Family Manuscript Collection MS-03401 p--Page pp--Pages nd--No date inc d--Incomplete date The symbols above are used in combinations: ALS means autograph letter signed; Tccms means typed carbon copy manuscript, etc. Square brackets are used to indicate that the information is supplied from some source other than the manuscript itself. 4 Ranuzzi Family Manuscript Collection MS-03401 Catholic Church. Pope. Acta Sacri Concistori coram Alex Pap. VI et success. pontific. usq. ad Urbanum Volume Pap. VIII ab anno 1498 usque ad annu 1644. Ams/copy [folio, 271 leaves], nd. Ph Bound in vellum. 12467 Volume Acta Pontificum a Sancto Petro usque ad Sixtum Quintum ab anno 37, usq. ad Ph 1585. Ams/copy [folio, 135 leaves], nd. Bound in vellum. 12468 Agocchi, Giovanni Battista, Abp. of Amasia, 1570-1632 Lettere varie di Mons. Agocchia, Segr. di Stato di Greg. XV senza alcuno ordine ma Volume degli anni che vi vedrai e son scritte a varij prelati, Card. li et altri spettanti a Ph Interessi della Santa Sede. 39 AL/copies [quarto, 139 leaves], nd. One letter 12472 incomplete. Dates of letters from 1623-1627. Bound in vellum. Instrutioni e lettere di Mons. Agocchi, Seg.rio di Stato della Santità di Gregorio XV Volume alla nobilissima famiglia de Lodovisi, bolognese, con alcune lettere scritte di Ph proprio pugno di Sua Santità, 1621-1623, Rome. Ams/copy [folio, 213 leaves], nd. 12473 Bound in calf with gilt ruling. Volume Vita di Gironimo Agocchi, Cardinale di S. Pietro in Vincoli... Ams/copy [folio, 38 Ph leaves], nd. Bound in paper covered boards. 12476 Albergati, Fabio, ca 1550-1605. Modo di ridurre a pace le inimicizie private di Fabio Volume Albergati in qualche parte diverso dal libro stampato da esso autore su tale materia. Ph Ams/copy [folio, 168 leaves], nd. Book printed in 1503, in Rome 12477 [Bronzino, Angelo], 1502-1572. Rime di Cristofano Allori detto il Bronzino, pittore Volume fiorentino. Ams/copy [folio, 205 leaves], nd. Bound in calf, with leather label on spine Ph with gilt lettering. Poems by Angelo Allori, called Il Bronzino, not by his great 12479 nephew Cristofano Allori, as the title indicates. Ghiselli, Antonio Francesco, 1670-1730, comp. Relatione delle nascite e fortune del Cardinale Altieri de suoi intrighi per li parentadi della sua casa degli ostacoli portati Volume per la promotione de Cardinali ad instanza delle Corone e di tutto quello che successe Ph con gli Ambasciatori delle corone per le Franchigie... Ams/copy [folio, 588 leaves], 12480 nd. Ghiselli Arms. Bound in quarter vellum with paper covered boards. Amayden, Theodoro, fl. 17th cent. Notizie delle famiglie romane copiate dell' originale Volume del Signor Theodoro Amayden, fìamingo da Bolduc et avvocato in Roma. Ams/copy Ph [folio, 498 leaves], 1684. The original manuscript is in Bologna in Conte Valerio Zani's 12481 library. List of Roman families at beginning, 6 leaves. Bound in calf with gilt ruling. Composizioni poetiche su la vita e varij miracoli di S. Antonio di Padova nel 1668. Volume 5 Ranuzzi Family Manuscript Collection MS-03401 Composizioni poetiche su la vita e varij miracoli di S. Antonio di Padova nel 1668. Volume Ams/copy? [folio, 89 leaves], [1668?]. Note written after most poems: "Omnia Ph correcta [or] amendata 26 Junij 1668." Bound in paper covered boards. 12483 Volume Avenali, Evangelista, alias Dominici. Croniche dell' antichissima città d'Imola. Ph Ams/copy [folio, 124 leaves], nd. Bound in paper covered boards. 12484 Azione bellica in campagna ed intorno a fortezze. Ams/copy? [folio, 41 leaves], nd. Volume Treatise on war strategy in Italy, 17th century. Bound in vellum, damaged, one part of Ph cover missing. 12485 Siri, Vittorio, 1608-1685. Ristretti e di cose più considerabili d'otto tomi delle memorie recondite dell' anno 1600 sino al 1640 e di nove tomi del Mercurio, overo Storia de Volume tempi correnti dal 1635 al presente 16...[sic] di Vittorio Siri scritti da Mons.
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