Milledonne Manuscript

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0103 MS ITALIAN 5
Held at	: University College London   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/special-coll ›
Full title	: Milledonne Manuscript
Date(s)	: [17th century]
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 volume containing 110 leaves
Name of creator(s)	: Unknown

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Antonio Milledonne: born, 1522; secretary of the Council of Ten in Venice; the Republic's observer at the Council of Trent (1545-1563), whose account of the Council was never published (although a French translation appeared in Paris in 1870); died, 1588.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Manuscript volume [17th century] containing Antonio Milledonne's 'Historia de sacri concili divisa in due libri ... ' (history of the holy council [presumably the Council of Trent] in two volumes).

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
Italian. Cursive script.

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Open.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Normal copyright restrictions apply.

Finding aids:

List at University College London Special Collections.

Archival Information

Archival history:

From the St John Brooks Collection. Various pressmarks.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Unknown.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Cf Oxford University, Bodleian Library, Special Collections and Western Manuscripts, MS 24396. McGill University Archives, Montreal, Canada, Rare Book Department, holds a manuscript copy, c1680, of Milledonne's 'Gionale del Concilio Tridentino' (Ref: H80.Bd119).

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Source: website of McGill University Archives, Montreal, Canada, at http://www.archives.mcgill.ca. Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Sep 2001