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The abdication document of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, in Italian translation, …

Auction 07.12.2016
07.12.2016
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2.000 £ - 3.000 £
ca. 2.497 $ - 3.745 $
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Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 69

The abdication document of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, in Italian translation, …

Auction 07.12.2016
07.12.2016
Schätzpreis
2.000 £ - 3.000 £
ca. 2.497 $ - 3.745 $
Zuschlagspreis:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

The abdication document of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, in Italian translation, manuscript on paper [Italy, c. 1600] 36 leaves (plus two paper flyleaves at each end), complete, collation: i10, ii8, iii10, iv8 (two blanks cancelled at end), catchwords at foot of every page, single column, 26 lines in two scrolling italic hands, armorial bookplate of eighteenth century with a black eagle surmounting a fleur-de-lys pasted to front pastedown, marbled endleaves, some small spots and stains, else in excellent condition, 264 by 195 mm. (written space: 240 by 160 mm.); fine binding of late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century, of gilt-tooled morocco (with undulating single fillet, around a detailed floral rectangle with realistic foliage sprays from its corners), small bumps and scuffs, else good Charles V (1500-58) held as commanding a fascination for his contemporaries and those of following centuries as he does today. He inherited rule over the Hapsburg Netherlands in 1506, and by 1516 added the Spanish Empire to this, finally being elevated to the Holy Roman Emperorship in 1519. Vast swathes of western, central and southern Europe lay under his direct rule, as did the Spanish colonies in Asia and the Americas (greatly increased in the years of his reign by the conquistadors Cortés and Pizarro). At its height he ruled over 4,000,000 square kilometres, more than any other ruler in history. However, his health was never good, and in addition to his infamous physical deformity of an enlarged chin, he suffered from digestive problems, epilepsy and in later life, gout. Thus in the mid-1550s he urgently abdicated his rule in favour of his young son and heir, Philip. In a public meeting in the Netherlands on 25 October 1555 he formally renounced his authority and gave notice of his intention to retire to a monastery in Spain (in fact Yuste in Extremadura). The resulting document arising from that meeting (which survives in archive copies in the Bibliothèque royale in Brussels) extends the formal declaration of abdication, to advice to his young son on how to rule a pan-global empire, composed in the medieval tradition of the ‘mirror of princes’ and echoing Machiavelli. It was a document for wider consumption produced by a grand Emperor discussing his unique rule, as well as a personal ‘manual of rule’ for his young son, hurriedly put together in the face of advancing mortality.Germany and France are discussed at length and seen as ‘turbulent’ nations, unlike the stable and dependable Spain, and he confesses the tasks facing a ruler in peacetime to be “almost superhuman”. “War is like bad weather”, he notes, “always just about to arrive”, and thus in the second part of the text, he urged preparation for this, and noted strategies to be followed in wartime. Manuscripts of any version of the text are of great rarity, and only three other copies of the Italian translation have been traced by us (Turin, Archivio di Stato, Mazzo 1; BnF. Ital. ms 10075, probably ex. Bibliothecae Baluziane, 1719, no. 214; and Phillipps MS. 5779, from the library of Cardinal Savo Millini, and later Lord Guilford, most recently sold by H.P. Kraus to Schøyen, his MS 864), all dating to the early seventeenth century. The earliest territories to be passed over in this abdication were the thrones of Sicily and Naples, as fiefs of the papacy, as well as the duchy of Milan, and so this translation, surviving in manuscripts from about a half-century later, may well have been made for either the Vatican or the Milanese court.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 69
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Datum:
07.12.2016
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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
Großbritannien und Nordirland
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Beschreibung:

The abdication document of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, in Italian translation, manuscript on paper [Italy, c. 1600] 36 leaves (plus two paper flyleaves at each end), complete, collation: i10, ii8, iii10, iv8 (two blanks cancelled at end), catchwords at foot of every page, single column, 26 lines in two scrolling italic hands, armorial bookplate of eighteenth century with a black eagle surmounting a fleur-de-lys pasted to front pastedown, marbled endleaves, some small spots and stains, else in excellent condition, 264 by 195 mm. (written space: 240 by 160 mm.); fine binding of late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century, of gilt-tooled morocco (with undulating single fillet, around a detailed floral rectangle with realistic foliage sprays from its corners), small bumps and scuffs, else good Charles V (1500-58) held as commanding a fascination for his contemporaries and those of following centuries as he does today. He inherited rule over the Hapsburg Netherlands in 1506, and by 1516 added the Spanish Empire to this, finally being elevated to the Holy Roman Emperorship in 1519. Vast swathes of western, central and southern Europe lay under his direct rule, as did the Spanish colonies in Asia and the Americas (greatly increased in the years of his reign by the conquistadors Cortés and Pizarro). At its height he ruled over 4,000,000 square kilometres, more than any other ruler in history. However, his health was never good, and in addition to his infamous physical deformity of an enlarged chin, he suffered from digestive problems, epilepsy and in later life, gout. Thus in the mid-1550s he urgently abdicated his rule in favour of his young son and heir, Philip. In a public meeting in the Netherlands on 25 October 1555 he formally renounced his authority and gave notice of his intention to retire to a monastery in Spain (in fact Yuste in Extremadura). The resulting document arising from that meeting (which survives in archive copies in the Bibliothèque royale in Brussels) extends the formal declaration of abdication, to advice to his young son on how to rule a pan-global empire, composed in the medieval tradition of the ‘mirror of princes’ and echoing Machiavelli. It was a document for wider consumption produced by a grand Emperor discussing his unique rule, as well as a personal ‘manual of rule’ for his young son, hurriedly put together in the face of advancing mortality.Germany and France are discussed at length and seen as ‘turbulent’ nations, unlike the stable and dependable Spain, and he confesses the tasks facing a ruler in peacetime to be “almost superhuman”. “War is like bad weather”, he notes, “always just about to arrive”, and thus in the second part of the text, he urged preparation for this, and noted strategies to be followed in wartime. Manuscripts of any version of the text are of great rarity, and only three other copies of the Italian translation have been traced by us (Turin, Archivio di Stato, Mazzo 1; BnF. Ital. ms 10075, probably ex. Bibliothecae Baluziane, 1719, no. 214; and Phillipps MS. 5779, from the library of Cardinal Savo Millini, and later Lord Guilford, most recently sold by H.P. Kraus to Schøyen, his MS 864), all dating to the early seventeenth century. The earliest territories to be passed over in this abdication were the thrones of Sicily and Naples, as fiefs of the papacy, as well as the duchy of Milan, and so this translation, surviving in manuscripts from about a half-century later, may well have been made for either the Vatican or the Milanese court.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 69
Auktion:
Datum:
07.12.2016
Auktionshaus:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
Großbritannien und Nordirland
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
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