Title from printed catalog. Report, beginning defectively, on the conclave which elected as pope Fabio Chigi who took the name Alexander VII (April 1655-May 1666); although the author of the report frequently refers to himself in the first person, it remains uncertain if he is speaking strictly as an author, or as a participant in the events. Support: Paper. Script: Cursive. Layout: Collation impracticable; catchwords irregularly placed on the verso referring to the facing recto, and on the recto referring to its own verso. 19-22 long lines; vertical rules produced by folding. Watermark(s): Not in Briquet, but of the same type as Etoile 6088. HM 770, formerly part of the same larger volume as HM 772, contains Don Phoebo's Triumph, 1645, in the hand of Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmoreland. Assigned Date: s. XVII. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/29/2012. In 1929 the large volume which had constituted lot 948 was disbound and its component parts given separate numbers. They are in their original order: HM 770, Don Phoebo's Triumph, 1645, in the hand of Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmoreland, ff. 9; HM 771, Candia Restaurata, 1640, with notes in the hand of Fane, ff. 23; HM 772, Report on the Conclave electing Alexander VII, the present...
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