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Diplomatic papers of graf von Harrach
Title
Diplomatic papers of graf von Harrach, [1670s?].
Physical Description
4.5 linear ft (27 boxes)
Language
Spanish; Italian; French
Notes
Binding: early 19th century marbled half calf with gilt-stamped labels in red and green on gilt spine; edges gilt.
Shelf mark tags affixed to front pastedowns.
Contemporary engraved portraits of rulers, nobles and other notables bound in preceding text in all volumes.
In Spanish, Italian and French.
Provenance
From the Harrach family library. Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2005.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Biographical / Historical Note
Ferdinand Bonaventura, Graf von Harrach (1636-1706), born into a noble Austrian family, served Emperor Leopold I as Oberststallmeister and then as envoy to France and Spain. He was Ambassador to Spain in 1673-1676 and 1696-1698, and a member of the Geheime Konferenz for several decades. He was named Oberstkämmerer in 1701, and died in Karlsbad in 1706.
Summary
The papers contain copies of treaties, pacts, negotiation minutes, and other diplomatic agreements; copies of orders and instructions, secret instructions, credentials, memoranda, reports, and correspondence; and copies of newsletters, accounts of current events, and historical background material, all documenting diplomatic, political and military affairs in Europe from the point of view of the Hapsburg emperors between ca. 1600 and 1675. In addition to extensive information concerning the close, if sometimes strained, diplomatic and political connections between the Empire and the Hapsburg rulers of Spain, there is much documentation concerning the diplomatic and military events and confused aftermaths of the Thirty Years' War. Several volumes cover the imperial response to the almost continuous challenges to Hapsburg rule in the Spanish Netherlands and Low Countries; Catalonia and Portugal; the Kingdom of Naples; Hungary; and the Balkans. The multitude of imperial efforts to manage and counter the domination of the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans and Eastern Mediterranean is particularly well traced, including repeated interventions in Poland's elective monarchy; the wars in Hungary and Transylvania; the Venetian response to the Turks; and the arrival of a Turkish ambassador in Vienna. In addition, alliances and conflicts among the smaller German states and principalities, and the Hapsburg role in them, are well represented.
Also included are documents tracing the Holy Roman Empire's deteriorating relations with France, especially during the Franco-Spanish War. Background information on France is located in Volume 18 and includes historical reports on relations between France and Turkey, the life of Cardinal Mazarin, copies of correspondence between the French and imperial courts, and papers concerning the conduct of French ambassadors in Vienna. The volumes also hold copies of much correspondence concerning the ultimately unsuccessful imperial negotiations with the member states of the Triple Alliance (England, Holland and Sweden), particularly the English discussions of the baron de Lisola (Volume 5). Volume 17 contains historical material on relations with England, Sweden and Denmark, and includes reports on the execution of Charles I, the rule of Oliver Cromwell, a description of the 1666 fire of London, and translations and copies of four letters by Peter Paul Rubens discussing his diplomatic activity in London in the 1620s.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts / Images
Added to Catalog
February 17, 2005
Contents
Scritture e varie materie toccanti à la pace dell'Imperio, colle relazioni delle ultime guerre d'Ungaria
Papeles tocantes al duque Maximilian de Baviera, y otros tocantes à la pax con Francia
Potencias septent.
Papeles tocantes à la transacion Augustana Bula Brabantina
Negociaciones de Lisola
Papeles tocantes à los potentados de Italia
Papeles tocantes à España y Portugal
Paces entre los potentissimos emperadores Christiano y Turcos y otres reyes e potentados de Europa
Papeles tocantes à los electores
Cartas del rey Christianissimo....1663
Ligas confederaciones y otros trata
Leyes del imperio
Indices
Relatione dello stato dell'Imperio e della Germania
Privilegios y otros papeles tocantes à la aug.ma cassa de Alemania
Formulario de los titulos y ceremonias
Papeles tocantes al elector Federico Palatino
Papeles de los reyes de Inglaterra Suecia Dinamarca y Estados Generales de las provincias unidas del pais baxo
Papeles de Francia
Papeles de Polonia
Papeles tocantes à matrimonios de los principes de la aug.ma cassa de Austria
Papeles tocantes à la republica de Venecia
Relaciones de Roma y Candia
Memorias de Alemania desde 1626
Papeles tocantes à Flandes II y Milan
Flandes III
Camera.
Indexes/Finding aids
Indexes of contents at the end of each volume.
References
Ferdinand Bonaventura, Graf von Harrach. Diplomatic Papers of Graf von Harrach. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Ferdinand Bonaventura, Graf von Harrach. Diplomatic Papers of Graf von Harrach. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Engravings (prints)
Occupation
Diplomats.
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