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- Published / Created:
- 1884 May 8
- Call Number:
- MS 1779
- Container / Volume:
- Box 2, folder 20 | reel 1U
- Image Count:
- 1
- Found in:
- Manuscripts and Archives > Central America collection (MS 1779) > Original accession > Guatemala > Author: Barrios, Justo Rufino. Title: Letter to General I. McDowell. Description: Handwritten letter on official stationery in which President Barrios invites McDowell to visit Guatemala. Barrios also briefly discusses a plot against his life. Includes a typed English summary.
- Published / Created:
- 1522-1915
- Call Number:
- MS 1776
- Container / Volume:
- Box 35, folder 26, reel 1 | reel 1U
- Image Count:
- 19
- Found in:
- Manuscripts and Archives > Mexico collection (MS 1776) > Series Part II. I: Chronological > Author: Martínez, Enrico. Title: Rueda boladera. Place: [Mexico City?] Description: Manuscript describing the workings and construction of a type of mule powered wheel known as the "boladera" for use in sugar processing, wheat refining, and pumping water. The text contains several diagrams of a boladera and its component parts. [16--?]
- Published / Created:
- 1529-1907
- Call Number:
- MS 1776
- Container / Volume:
- Box 14, folder 148, reel 14 | reel 14U
- Image Count:
- 1
- Found in:
- Manuscripts and Archives > Mexico collection (MS 1776) > Series Part I: 1529-1907 > Author: Nava, Joséph. Title: "Mapa y tabla geográfica de leguas comunes que ai de unos a otros lugares y ciudades principales de la América Septentrional." Place: Puebla. Description: Printed sheet containing a map of the Mexican Viceroyalty, a table with distances among the principal cities of its territory, and an allegorical representation of Mexico City. The engraver's initials and the date of the printed sheet are on the lower right-hand corner. 1755 Dec
- Published / Created:
- 1529-1907
- Call Number:
- MS 1776
- Container / Volume:
- Box 29, folder 513, reel 27 | reel 27U
- Image Count:
- 1
- Found in:
- Manuscripts and Archives > Mexico collection (MS 1776) > Series Part I: 1529-1907 > Author: Rincón, Manuel. Title: "Demostración del sitio nombrado La Palmilla." Place: Mexico. Description: Two texts: a report and a sonet. The report, by Manuel Rincón, dated in Xalapa on 2 July 1816, concerns La Palmilla, a small fort occupied by rebel troops in Veracruz. Addressed to Commander Xavier Llamas, the report describes La Palmilla, includes a watercolor drawing of it, and proposes a military attack on it. The second text is an untitled sonnet, by an unknown author, dedicated to José Nicolás Maniau, for his election as lectoral canon. On the back cover there is a handwritten note by Joaquín García Icazbalceta stating that the only Rincón signature known to him is the one included in the report. 1816
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- Published / Created:
- 1529-1907
- Call Number:
- MS 1776
- Container / Volume:
- Box 29, folder 512, reel 27 | reel 27U
- Image Count:
- 2
- Found in:
- Manuscripts and Archives > Mexico collection (MS 1776) > Series Part I: 1529-1907 > Author: Río Fernández, Andrés Manuel del. Titulo: Texts on mineralogy. Place: Mexico? Description: Andrés Manuel del Río Fernández was a prominent Spanish scientist. Between 1792 and 1849, del Río was professor of chemistry at the Real Seminario of Mexico City and explored mines in the Mexican territory. This volume contains three of his works: "Arte de minas" (1 May 1816); "Tratado de vetas...para uso de Mariano Goyzueta (n.d.);" and "Tratado de geometría subterránea (n.d.)." The texts, probably handwritten by the author, deal with the construction of mines and the exploration for minerals. Includes drawings. 1816
- Creator:
- López de Ayala, Pedro, 1332-1407
- Published / Created:
- [between 1500 and 1600]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 79
- Image Count:
- 146
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Pedro Lopez de Ayala, Aves de caça.
- Description:
- In Spanish., Script: Written by a single scribe in a careful italic script., Crude initial and heading (in gold and subdued water colors) on f. i recto and f. 1r; other small initials, 4- to 1-line, in similar colors throughout text. Headings in red; initials of each paragraph in blue or red., Waterstained throughout., and Binding: Seventeenth century. Black goatskin, blind-tooled. Fragments of manuscripts (covered by paper pastedowns) serve as binding reinforcements.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- López de Ayala, Pedro, 1332-1407.
- Subject (Topic):
- Falconry, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Spanish literature
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Aves de caça.
- Published / Created:
- 1550.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 35
- Image Count:
- 112
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Carta Ejecutoria, or letter of nobility, issued in the names of Lope Goncalez de Valdes and Pedro Goncalez de Valdes, by the authority of Charles V, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, dated 12 September 1550 in Granada. Seal missing
- Description:
- In Spanish., Script: Written in round gothic by one scribe who added decorative designs in upper and lower margins. Addition on ff. 52v-53v by Don Antonio Larrillo is in a similar hand., The ornamentation of the codex is poorly executed. Folio 1v: miniatures representing the crowning of the Virgin (upper left) and the arms of the Goncalez de Valdes family; f. 2r: miniature of Justice, with scales (lower half of page). Both folios have elaborate decorative borders in gold and colors that are badly rubbed. Folios 4v and 52r have historiated initials with portraits of a seated king (Rey Don Iohan?). Twenty-five small painted initials, 7- to 5-line; gold letters with black pen designs on white-decorated blue and dark red backgrounds., and Binding: Bookblock laid in a contemporary vellum wrapper with an envelope flap.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., Spain., and Granada (Spain)
- Subject (Name):
- Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500-1558.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Nobility
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Carta ejecutoria
- Published / Created:
- 1586.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 529
- Image Count:
- 73
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of a letter of nobility granted to Juan and Hernando Gallego by the authority of King Philip II of Spain, dated Granada, 12 August 1585, 24 December 1585 and 15 January 1586
- Description:
- In Spanish., Script: Written well above the lines in a bold and round Southern Gothica Textualis Formata with typical Spanish features. The scribe added decorative designs in upper and lower margins., The illumination consists of 7- to 10-line initials on a square background (ff. 2v , 10v, 25r, 27r, 28v) and the following pictures: f. 1v, full-page miniature showing a couple and their five children in adoration for the Virgin in the Sun, in a decorative frame; f. 2r, full-page miniature, showing a victorious king (Philip II) on horseback, with his army in the background, trampling upon a defeated enemy; below is an oval shield containing three rocks and three trees, the whole in a decorative frame; f. 6r (Alonso Perez, witness), 10-line historiated initial with St. Alphonsus; f. 8r (Alonso Martin Garrido, witness), 9-line historiated initial with St. Alphonsus; f. 17r (Hernando Verdugo, witness), 9-line historiated initial with the Holy Spirit as a dove; f. 20v (Francisco de Robles), 9-line historiated initial with St. Francis receiving the stigmata., and Binding: Red velvet over cardboard. The pastedowns are two large engravings, one picturing the Beatitudes, the other the Creed.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Spain
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Politics and government
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Carta ejecutoria de hidalguia
- Published / Created:
- 1487, 1686.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 34
- Image Count:
- 172
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (various watermarks) and parchment, composed of two distinct sections bound together in the 18th (?) century, but with additional folios inserted. Part I (parchment): Carta ejecutoria, or letter of nobility, granted to Don Alfonso Rodriguez (Tinagero Rodriguez de la Escalera) by the authority of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabel of Castile. Issued in Salamanca, 1487. Seal missing. Part II (paper): Numerous documents (all dated 1686) concerning a law suit involving Don Diego Tinagero Rodriguez de la Escalera of Seville, a descendent of Alfonso Rodriguez
- Description:
- In Spanish., Script: Part I (ff. 3-13): Round gothic script by a single scribe. Part II (ff. 19-74): Written in various cursive hands., Folios 1v and 2r have crudely illuminated full-page miniatures, 17th century. Folio 1v: members of the Rodriguez family offering prayers to the Madonna and Child. Folio 2r: arms of the Tinagero Rodriguez de la Escalera family. Crude decorative border on f. 3v and REY (in gold, outlined in black) may be later additions., Many of the documents included appear to have once been folded. Some loss of text due to trimming., and Binding: Eighteenth century (?). Thin wooden boards covered with dark brown leather, flesh side out. Vermilion and green ribbon fastenings.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., Spain., Spain, Salamanca (Spain), and Seville (Spain)
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Legal documents, Manuscripts, Medieval, Nobility, and Politics and government
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Carta ejecutoria, etc