Scope and Contents This collection contains the early modern European documents (dating from the 16th to 18th centuries) owned by the Hesburgh Library which are not part of a discrete archival collection. That is to say, this is an artificial collection of early modern European documents, grouped not by provenance, but by origin (early modern European) and genre (diplomatics). As such, it is composed of a wide variety of diplomatic genres, including: papal bulls, lease and releases, leases, surrenders,...

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Commission from Victor Amadeus II for Conte Giovanni Battista Santus to make him the Commandante of the city and province of Vercelli.

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Letter to Valperga Santus of notification of his appointment to Head of the Fourth (and one half?) Brigade of the National Guard, with the attendant benefits

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Letter of commission from Victor Amadeus II, Duke of Savoy, to Cavalier Filippo Santus, promoting him to lieutenant in the Ciablese regiment.

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Letter of commission from Victor Amadeus II, Duke of Savoy, to Giuseppe Gaetano Santus Berna, promoting him to ensign in the Regiment of the Guards.

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Personal and military documents of Lt. Morris Cooper Foote, 9th Infantry, United States Army, along with related Congressional documents. Included in the collection is a manuscript diary recording Foote's experiences from 1866 to 1869 in Alaska (its first 19 months as a U.S. territory) and from 1869 to 1871 in the Department of the Platte.

Scope and Contents The José M. Martelli Collection of Savoy Documents compiles medieval and early modern documents (ca. 14th-19th centuries) relating to the House of Savoy and several prominent Savoy families, including the Viale, Valperga, and Santus Berna families. The majority of the documents in this collection can be traced to the Duchy of Savoy, a now defunct Savoyard state run by the House of Savoy between 1416-1847. The House of Savoy documents span the House's transformation from the Counts of Savoy...