Commentarius Rinuccinianus

The project team would like to thank Dr Tadhg Ó hAnnrachain for use of this resource

Manuscript sources

Italy

Fermo

Archivio Arcivescovile di Fermo

iii c/10 - letters of Rinuccini to Alessandro Celli (?)

iii C/11 - miscellaneous letters of Rinuccini

iii C/13 - "Instruttione pratica per la cura episcopale di Monsignor Gio. Battista Rinuccini, Arcivescove di Fermo"

Synodus Civitatis et Dioc. Firmane - Decrees of synod of 1628

Firenze

Archivio di Stato di Firenze

Mis. Medicea, 436 ins 19 - Lettere di Alessandro Neroni sul viaggio in Irlanda del Nuncio Apostolico, 1654

Deputazione sopra la nobilità, Filza 7 - Details concerning the Rinuccini family

Milan

Archivio Storico Comunale di Milano

Biblioteca Trivulziana, Cod. n. 1958 - Rinuccini's Compendio di Geografia

Biblioteca Trivulziana, cod. n. 1963 - Rinuccini's Quaestiones in octo libros Aristotelis de phisica

Biblioteca Trivulziana, cod. n. 1964 - Rinuccini's Libellus de recta argumentandi ratione ad quaestiones logicas intelligendas

Rome

Archivio Segreto Vaticano

Acta Miscellanea 97 - details concerning the archbishopric of Fermo

Acta Vicecancellarii S.R.E., 17 - Details concerning Rinuccini's elevation to the see of Fermo

Epistulae ad Principi, 53 - Letters concerning the appointment of Scarampi in 1643

Lettere di Cardinali, Vols. 12-14, 17 - Letters of bishop of Clogher, Rinuccini, Rossetti and the Grand Duke of Tuscany to Pamfili and Pancirolo, 1647-53

Lettere di Vescovi e Prelati, Vols., 16, 23, 24, 25, 27, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 35 - Letters from Rinuccini, Visconti, Imperiali, Caetano, the council of Fermo, San Felice, cardinal Montalto, the bishops of Clonfert, Raphoe, and Ossory, and the archbishop of Cashel to Pancirolo and Pamfili, 1645-53

Lettere di Vescovi e Principi, Vols., 29, 31 - Letters from Rinuccini and military governors of Fermo to Pancirolo, 1646-49

Particolari, Vols. 17, 24 - Miscellaneous letters concerning Bellings's embassy to Rome in 1644, the Catalonian request for a nuncio in 1644, and details concerning Massari

Pontificio. Misc., ii - Details concerning the influence of Cardinal Bandini in Rome

Processus Episcoporum Sacrae Consistorialis, 21 - Details concerning Rinuccini and Fermo in 1625

Secretarius Brevium Apostolicorum, 657 - Details of Rinuccini's privileges as a referendary in 1622

Archivio della Sacra Congregazione di Propaganda Fide

Acta Sacrae Congregationis, 1644-5 - Details concerning ecclesiastical faculties in the province of Tuam following Rinuccini's appointment and the finance of the Rinuccini and Scarampi missions in Ireland

1646-7 - Details concerning the appointment of bishops in Ireland during Rinuccini's nunziatura

Lettere Latine, Vol. 9 - Letters from the Roman curia to the earl of Westmeath, the conde de Tirconnel, the four archbishops, the bishops of Elphin, Kildare, Killaloe, Ferns, Waterford and others concerning church affairs in Ireland

Lettere Volgari, Vol. 7, 22 - Letters to archbishop of Dublin and Scarampi concerning catholicism in Scotland

Miscellaneae Varie, Vol. 9 - Massari's account of the Rinuccini Nunziatura

Scritture Originali Referite nelle Congregazioni Generali, Vols. 14 (1635), 89 (1644), 140 (1640), 141 (1642), 142 (1643), 143 (1645), 145 (1647), 294 (general up to 1636), 295 (general up to 1648) - Material relating to Irish dioceses

Scritture riferite nei Congressi", 1, Irlanda - Material relating to Irish dioceses 1618-53

Fondo di Vienna, Vols. 14, 39 - Miscellaneous material relating to Ireland

Archivio della congregazione per le cause dei Santi

Decreta Liturgica, 1622-6

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana

Barberini Latini Mss, 3631, 4994, 5253, 5653, 6485, 6827, 8223, 8238, 8649, 8651, 8653, 8655 - Letters to Barberini concerning Irish and British affairs

4729 - Account of Scarampi in Ireland

4886 - Account of the life of Scarampi

5678 - Account of nunciature of Passionei in Toscana

Nunziatura di Fiandra, Vols. 32, 33, 45 - letters relating to Britain and Ireland 1645-9

Nunziatura d’Inghilterra, Vol. 8 - letters to Rinuccini and Scarampi in Ireland

Ireland

Dublin

Dublin City Pearse Street Library

Ms. 254 - Memoirs of George Leyburn

Franciscan Archive in Killiney

D II, D III, D IV - Correspondence of Luke Wadding relating to affairs in Ireland

National Library of Ireland

Ms. 7-12 - Collectanea de rebus Hibernicis

Ms. 345 (Plunkett-Dunne Manuscript) - The War and rebellion in Ireland begun in 1641

Ms. 476 - "A light to the blind"

National Archives

Carte Transcripts, vols, 15-23

Trinity College

Mss 846 - Aphorismical discovery of treasonable faction

Mss 1071 - Cín Lae Ó Mealláin

Britain

London

British Library

Egerton Mss 917 - miscellaneous papers 1623 -1728

Egerton Mss 2533 - miscellaneous papers 1640s

Egerton Mss 2541-2 - papers of secretary Nicholas, 1598-1659

Harleian Mss 4551 - Diplomatic papers of Brienne

Harleian Mss 6807 - miscellaneous papers chiefly 1649-50

Sloane Mss 1008 - papers of Edmund Borlase

Oxford

Bodleian Library

Carte Mss 14-24, 27, 63-65, 67, 97, 99, 118, 156 - Ormond corresponence and miscellaneous papers

Clarendon Mss 22-25, 98 papers of the earl of Clarendon

Rawlinson Mss A 110 - Parliamentary orders 1642-3

France

Paris

Archives du Ministère des Affaires Étrangeres

Correspondence Politique (Angleterre), Vols., 48, 49, 51, 52, 54, 55, 57, 60 - Letters of Mazarin, Brienne, Rinuccini, Talbot, Digby, du Moulin, Talon, de la Monerie and others relating to affairs in Ireland

Correspondence Politique (Rome), Vols., 90, 91, 92 - Letters of Mazarin, Pamfili and others

Archives de la Guerre (Vincennes)

AI Côtes 79, 86, 100, 110, 116, 118, 119, 128, 133, 134, 137, 158 - Letters of Digby, Muskery, du Moulin and others concerning the recruitment of Irish soldiers for French service

Bibliothèque Nationale

Fonds Français, 4168, 4169, 4170 - Letters from the king and Queen Regent to the Supreme council and to de la Monerie 1644-4

4173 - du Moulin's instructions of January 1646 and letters of Queen Regent to Ormond and others

4175 -Instructions to Talon and de la Monerie in February and March 1647 with miscellaneous letters to Ireland

15996-8, Correspondence between Brienne, le Tellier and a variety of French agents (Consulted on microfilm in National library of Ireland)

Spain

Simancas

Archivio General (consulted on microfilm in National library of Ireland)

Secr. de Estado, Negoc. de Inglaterra 1628-48, 1644-50

Negoc. de Roma, 1613-99

Pamphlets

Lough Fea Collection (consulted on microfiche in National Library of Ireland)

No. 225 - Exceeding good newes from Ireland (London, 1647)

No. 227 - A true and brief relation of Lord Lisles departure from his command in Ireland (London, 1647)

No. 234 - The declaration and the protestation of the Lord Inchiquin and all the officers under his command (London, 1648)

No. 278 - A relation of the particulars of the reduction of the greatest part of the province of Munster in Ireland (London, 1648)

British Library Thomason Tracts (Consulted on microfilm in University College Dublin)

E 60 (19) - Orders established in the popish general assembly held (under the specious pretence of supreme authority, and being his majesty’s good subjects) at the city of Kilkenny (London, 1642)

E 110 (9) - A remonstrance of the beginnings and proceedings of the rebellion including the acts of the Kilkenny congregation 10-12 May 1642 (London, 1642)

E 113 (4) - The popes brief or bull of dispensation (London, 1642)

E 131 (23) - The rebels letter to the pope, 20 January 1642 (London, 1642)

E 155 (22) - The copy of a letter written from the lord viscount Gormanston unto Sir Phelim O’Neal (London, 1642)

E 294 (24) - A sad relation of the miseries of the province of Munster in the realm of Ireland (London, 1645)

E 346 (5) - Very sad and bloody newes from Ireland on the loss of Bunratty in Munster and Roscommon in Connaught (London, 1646)

E 386 (16) - The bloody diurnall from Ireland being the papers and propositions, orders, an oath and several bloody acts and the proceedings of the confederate catholics assembled at Kilkenny (London, 1647)

E 407 (5) - A great and glorious victory obtained by the Lord Inchiquin, lord president of Munster over the Irish rebels, not far from the castle of Conmell(London, 1647)

E 416 (22) - Newes from Dublin in Ireland (London, 1647)

E 418 (10) - A perfect narrative of the battle of Knocknones within the county of Cork and province of Munster (London, 1647)

E 419 (8) - Two letters of the Lord Digby to the Lord Taaffe, the rebels general in Munster (London, 1647)

E 608 (15)- A history or a brief chronicle of the chief matters of the Irish wars(London, 1649)

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