Linea de los Reyes Moros de Granada

Description

Title: Linea de los Reyes Moros de Granada
Published / Created: [1575-1599]
Publication Place: Spain
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of the history of the final days of the Moorish kingdom of Granada
Description: In Spanish.
Watermark: resembles Briquet 11272 (Toulouse, 1570).
Script: copied by a single scribe in a Spanish version of Humanistica Cursiva Formata. The first word of each paragraph is written in Capitalis. The Latin formula at the end is in Humanistica Textualis Formata. A few marginal notes, mostly by a later hand.
The text recounts the history of the final days of the Moorish kingdom of Granada through the conquest by Gonsalvo de Cordoba, the "great captain" in the service of the Catholic Kings of Spain, 1492. This is the final quire of a manuscript that contained the full history of the Moorish Kings of Granada.
Disbound. Extracted from a larger manuscript.
Provenance: Given through the Library Associates by Laurence Witten, 1982 February 23.
Extent: ff. 12 : 315 x 215 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Spanish

Genre: Manuscripts, Renaissance Spain 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Granada (Kingdom)
Spain
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval
Kings and rulers
History
Subjects: Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Granada (Kingdom) > Kings and rulers
Spain > History
Spain > 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Linea de los Reyes Moros de Granada. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.