I am working on a paper with the "Calendar of State Papers and Manuscripts in the Archives and Collections of Milan 1385-1618" as my main source. Having searched the web high and low, all I could find about the manuscripts is the fact that they were first published in 1912 by His Majesty's Stationery Office and were edited (and, presumably, translated) by Allen B Hinds.
However, I need more information for source analysis. It would be good to at least know who created this particular calendar, what was the principle behind grouping these papers together (and are there any more which didn't make it in) and in which archive do they reside. Also, a more detailed account of Hinds' translation and editorial process, as well as his qualification, would be most welcome.
Thus, if you know of any places where I could acquire at least some of the things needed I would be most grateful. Thank you in advance!
Well, what you have is not a single source, but a compendium of sources taken from the archive of Milan. I’m looking at a copy now, and they’re all documents that reference England in some way. If you were going to talk about the entirety of the collection, you’d need to talk about English historiography at the time. Otherwise, you need to probably just pick one document and focus on that.