Manuscript on paper of Diego Enriquez del Castillo (1433-1504?), Chronicle of King Enrique IV of Castile (1425-74). With the Life of Don Juan Pacheco, Marques de Villena; Decretal texts concerning behavior of clerics; and Brief law text in Latin.
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Binding: Sixteenth century, Spain. Sewn on three tawed skin, slit straps, now broken, laced into channels in wooden boards. One plain wound endband is sewn on a tawed skin core, the other endband was added later. Covered in brown calf blind-tooled with concentric frames, the central panel and alternate frames filled with rope interlace. The layout of the design is the same on both boards but different small tools are used in the central panels. Spine: four fillets outlining the supports and in the center of the panels a small rope tool in the center of the compartments so formed. Two fastenings, the catches on the lower board, the clasp straps later additions. The spine is mended at head and tail; some corners repaired., In Spanish., Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1955 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written by several scribes in late Spanish bookhands with cursive and humanistic features. Some headings in large gothic display script., and Watermarks: unidentified hand.
Subject (Geographic):
Castile (Spain)--History--Henry IV, 1454-1474
Subject (Name):
Enríquez del Castillo, Diego,--1431-1503? and Henry--IV,--King of Castile and Leon,--1425-1474
Subject (Topic):
Biography--Middle Ages, 500-1500, Canon law--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Spanish literature--To 1500
The depositions are probably part of an expediente in relation to Reuben Ross's petition for a land grant. Included are statements by Horatio J. Offutt and Bernardo Amado y Outon.
Subject (Name):
Amado y Outon, Bernardo , Offutt, Horatio J., and Ross, Reuben, d. 1828
Juan Riobó's diary describes his 1779 expedition from San Blas, Mexico up the west coast of Baja California to discover a Northwest passage. The diary describes local Indians (without identifying them) and the terrain. This item appears to be a contemporary copy.
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Fray Juan Riobó was chaplain of the frigates la Princesa and la Favorita on a voyage under the command of Ignacio Arteaga to discover a Northwest passage north of San Francisco. and Gift of Frederick W. Beinecke.
Subject (Geographic):
Mendocino, Cape (Calif.), Northwest Passage--Discovery and exploration, San Blas (Mexico), and San Francisco (Calif.)
Subject (Name):
Riobo, Juan
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America--California and Voyages and travels--History--19th century
21 p. 33 cm. Dated 1831 Sep 12 - Oct 27. Signed: Ramon Musquiz, F.W. Johnson, Miguel Arciniega, Walter C. White, Samuel M. Williams.
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Dated 1831 Sep 12 - Oct 27. Signed: Ramon Musquiz, F.W. Johnson, Miguel Arciniega, Walter C. White, Samuel M. Williams. and Purchased from Henry Raup Wagner in 1919.
Subject (Geographic):
Texas--History--To 1846, Texas--Politics and government--To 1846, and United States--Boundaries--Texas
Four documents concerning the efforts of Reuben Ross to establish a colony on the Red River in Texas. The first, dated May 11, 1826, is by Juan Antonio Padilla, Secretary of the government of Coahuila and Texas, and advises the President of the Republic to grant a colony to Colonel Reuben Ross and Brigadier General Arthur G. Wavell on the Red River. The second, also by Padilla, is dated August 21, 1826 and certifies that Ross fought on the side of the Republic against the Spanish, citing his actions in the battle of Rosillo. The third is a letter by Juan Cameron to the Governor of Coahuila and Texas, dated August 18, 1828. Cameron notifies the government that Reuben Ross is dead and petitions to assume Ross's grant to establish 200 families on the Colorado next to Wavell's settlement. The fourth, signed by José María Vicaria, Governor of Coahuila and Texas, is dated September 15, 1828 and reserves the decision on Cameron's request.
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Purchased from Peter Decker on the William Robertson Coe Fund for Western Americana, 1968.
Subject (Geographic):
Red River (Tex.-La.) and Texas--Colonization
Subject (Name):
Cameron, John, fl. 1847, Coahuila and Texas (Mexico)--Governor (1826-1827 : Arizpe), Coahuila and Texas (Mexico)--Governor (1827-1830 : Viesca), Padilla, Juan Antonio -1839, Ross, Reuben, d. 1828, and Wavell, Arthur Goodall, 1785-1860
Manuscript copy in Spanish of a 1793 Spanish land grant by Louisiana Governor Francisco Louis Hector Carondelet to Don Joseph Valliere, and signed by Carlos Trudeau, Royal and Private Surveyor of the Province of Louisiana. The grant contains a map showing the location of the land on the White River in the present-day states of Arkansas and Missouri, and is impressed with the seal of the State of Louisiana, certified in English, dated December 7, 1840, and signed by L. Bringier, Surveyor General of Louisiana. The land grant copy is accompanied by an English translation of the grant and copies in an unidentified hand of three letters regarding the property including that of John Wilson to W. A. Bradley, Washington City (October 17, 1841); a letter to Wilson from [Beragency?], New Orleans (undated); and to John Wilson from H. H. Williams, New Orleans (June 19, 1841).
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Joseph Valliere was a Captain in the Spanish Army and served in Louisiana; he died in 1799. and Purchased from Fred A. Rosenstock on the Frederick W. & Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana, 1975.
Subject (Name):
Bradley, W. A, Bringier, Louis, Louisiana.--Governor (1791-1797 : Carondelet), Louisiana.--Surveyor General's Office, Trudeau, Charles, Valliere, Joseph,---approximately 1799, Williams, H. H., and Wilson, John,--active 1841