The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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Alexander VII, Pope (13 Feb 1599 - 22 May 1667)

Born Fabio Chigi. Pope from 1655 to 1667. Linked manuscript items: as Subject of/in a document - "[Album coloured engraved portraits of Pope Alexander VII and his Cardinals]," Canterbury Cathedral Library and Archives CCA DCc Lit. Mss. E39b, Canterbury Cathedral
as Subject of/in a document - "The Pope, and Colledge, or Conclave of Cardinalles ," Canterbury Cathedral Library and Archives CCA DCc Lit. Mss. E39a, Canterbury Cathedral
 References in Documents:
Consolidated catalogue of 1695: The Book of the Vice-Chancellor (MacGregor, ed.) Pope Alexander VII The blessed Bishop Francis placed among the saints.
Bargrave's catalogue: Rara, Antiqua, et Numismata Bargraviana (Canterbury Cathedral Lit MS E 16a)

(61). Item, a fair book in folio, with the effigies of Alexander the 7th, and all the College of Cardinals at that time—An° Dni 1658—to my knowledge very well cut, and exceeding like. I had occasion to have audience with several of them, and have writ what authors say of them in my hand.

Bargrave's catalogue: Rara, Antiqua, et Numismata Bargraviana (Canterbury Cathedral Lit MS E 16a) 11. Alexander VII, with a soldier and a lion. brass.
Bargrave's catalogue: Rara, Antiqua, et Numismata Bargraviana (Canterbury Cathedral Lit MS E 16a) 12. Alexander VII, with his Vatican Cloister. brass.
Gentle Traveller (Curatorial catalogue) Effigies Nomina et Cognomina S.D.N. Alexandri Papae VII
Gentle Traveller (Curatorial catalogue) Alexander VII and the College of Cardinals
18th-c coin catalogue (Canterbury Cathedral Lit MS E 16c) 2. the Medal of Alexander VII. It is next to the former.
A memo dated 28 April 1658 (Canterbury Cathedral loose papers) A siluer meddal of Pope Innocent 10th and one of Alexandr Alexander vii.
Sale Catalogue of Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1764) 89 Innocent X. Clement X. Clement XI. in Silver, Clement XI. Clement X. Alexander VII. Gregory XIII. and Innocent XII. in Copper, the last gilt 8