BENEDICT XIV
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini, 1675-1758, from 1740 Pope)
Engaging Autograph Note, unsigned, in his fine clear hand, in Italian
with transcription and translation, to his French friend of forty years and privy chamberlain, Prior Jean Bouget, (1692, Saumur-1775, Rome), sending “the enclosed letter” [not present], in which the writer “threatens” (Benedict XIV’s word!) to send a poem that “has taken twelve years of continuous toil”, when it arrives Benedict would like Bouget to “consider and examine it”, but for the moment no reply is needed, old identification in the margin, 1 side folio, no place, 11th October
small defect in blank portion of horizontal fold
Item Date:
1753
Stock No:
42226
£1225
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BENEDICT XIV
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini, 1675-1758, from 1740 Pope)
Engaging Autograph Note, unsigned, in his fine clear hand, in Italian
with transcription and translation, to his French friend of forty years and privy chamberlain, Prior Jean Bouget, (1692, Saumur-1775, Rome), sending “the enclosed letter” [not present] from “Chevalier Cogollin”, (Joseph de Cuers-Cogolin, 1702-1760, of Cogolin in Provence, translator of Vergil’s Georgics and Ovid’s Ars Amatoria and Remedium Amoris), “who has written a little Poem against the materialists, and has sent it to us. So will you send a courteous answer, thanking him for it, and say that as we have with Us a sublime French poet, called Monsieur Bouget, we will pass the Work to him to read and examine, and to come back to Us about it”, and ending “Which is all [for the moment] etc.”, old identification in the margin, 1 side folio, no place, 6th November
small defect in blank left margin
Item Date:
1755
Stock No:
42227
£1275
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BENEDICT XV
(born Giacomo Paolo Giovanni Battista della Chiesa, 1854-1922, Pope from 1914 to his death, succeeded Pope Pius X)
Fine Postcard boldly Signed "Benedictus PP XV"
under the image which shows him full face wearing his cloak and with his cross around his neck, 5½" x 3½", no place (Vatican), no date
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
40430
£750
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BENSON
(Edward White, 1829-1896, first Bishop of Truro, Archbishop of Canterbury)
Autograph Letter Signed 'E.W. Truron:' to 'My dear Lord',
saying that "Not a Samaritan that I can hear of has murmured - [Greek for] not a grunt. Your paper has done nothing but good unmixed - unshadowed ... A few days ago a Quaker gave me £10 for the Cathedral, because he had happened to come in to the Conference that afternoon, and 'was so much impressed by the tone of the Conference towards Non-Conformists' ", Benson feels "anxious to know that you felt yourself 'treated not as a swell' as your first letter said, but 'as a realswell' after the heart of your friend the Costermonger", he offers his "most grateful cordial thanks for kindness shown to this remote House and for good sown in it. - Domestically too for leaving behind you such a spirit of cheerful determination to 'go on' by the plain Church of England way", 4 sides 8vo., Truro, Cornwall, 17th November
Item Date:
1881
Stock No:
14721
£75
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BENSON
(Edward White, 1829-1896, first Bishop of Truro, from 1882 Archbishop of Canterbury)
Signature and subscription from a letter,
referring on the verso to "the work of so large and difficult a parish", circa
Item Date:
1890
Stock No:
52973
£15
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