Papers pertaining to the 1789 Spanish exploration of the Northwest Coast of North America. Under the command of Alessandro Malaspina, the expedition sailed from Cadiz to the west coast of Africa, across the Atlantic to South America, south to the Falkland Islands, around Cape Horn, and north along the west coast to Acapulco, where the documentation ends. In addition, there is material on the shipwreck of the San Pedro Alcantara, a voyage to the China Sea, and a map of the west coast of Central America.
Subject (Geographic):
Northwest Coast of North America--Discovery and exploration--Spanish and Northwest Passage
Subject (Name):
Atrevida (Corvette), Cordova, Luis de, Descubierta (Corvette), Eguia, Manuel de, Fernán-Núñez, Carlos José Gutiérrez de los Ríos y Rohan Chabot, conde de, 1742-1795, Gutierrez de Rubalcava, Joaquin, Malaspina, Alessandro, 1754-1809, Mazarredo, Joseph, Muñoz, Xavier, fl. 1786, Revillagigedo, Juan Vicente Güémez Pacheco de Padilla Horcasitas y Aguayo, conde de, 1740-1799, Sesma, Fermin, Sevena, Pedro de, and Valdés y Bazan, Antonio, 1744-1816
Papers pertaining to the 1789 Spanish exploration of the Northwest Coast of North America. Under the command of Alessandro Malaspina, the expedition sailed from Cadiz to the west coast of Africa, across the Atlantic to South America, south to the Falkland Islands, around Cape Horn, and north along the west coast to Acapulco, where the documentation ends. In addition, there is material on the shipwreck of the San Pedro Alcantara, a voyage to the China Sea, and a map of the west coast of Central America.
Subject (Geographic):
Northwest Coast of North America--Discovery and exploration--Spanish and Northwest Passage
Subject (Name):
Atrevida (Corvette), Cordova, Luis de, Descubierta (Corvette), Eguia, Manuel de, Fernán-Núñez, Carlos José Gutiérrez de los Ríos y Rohan Chabot, conde de, 1742-1795, Gutierrez de Rubalcava, Joaquin, Malaspina, Alessandro, 1754-1809, Mazarredo, Joseph, Muñoz, Xavier, fl. 1786, Revillagigedo, Juan Vicente Güémez Pacheco de Padilla Horcasitas y Aguayo, conde de, 1740-1799, Sesma, Fermin, Sevena, Pedro de, and Valdés y Bazan, Antonio, 1744-1816
Papers pertaining to the 1789 Spanish exploration of the Northwest Coast of North America. Under the command of Alessandro Malaspina, the expedition sailed from Cadiz to the west coast of Africa, across the Atlantic to South America, south to the Falkland Islands, around Cape Horn, and north along the west coast to Acapulco, where the documentation ends. In addition, there is material on the shipwreck of the San Pedro Alcantara, a voyage to the China Sea, and a map of the west coast of Central America.
Subject (Geographic):
Northwest Coast of North America--Discovery and exploration--Spanish and Northwest Passage
Subject (Name):
Atrevida (Corvette), Cordova, Luis de, Descubierta (Corvette), Eguia, Manuel de, Fernán-Núñez, Carlos José Gutiérrez de los Ríos y Rohan Chabot, conde de, 1742-1795, Gutierrez de Rubalcava, Joaquin, Malaspina, Alessandro, 1754-1809, Mazarredo, Joseph, Muñoz, Xavier, fl. 1786, Revillagigedo, Juan Vicente Güémez Pacheco de Padilla Horcasitas y Aguayo, conde de, 1740-1799, Sesma, Fermin, Sevena, Pedro de, and Valdés y Bazan, Antonio, 1744-1816
Papers pertaining to the 1789 Spanish exploration of the Northwest Coast of North America. Under the command of Alessandro Malaspina, the expedition sailed from Cadiz to the west coast of Africa, across the Atlantic to South America, south to the Falkland Islands, around Cape Horn, and north along the west coast to Acapulco, where the documentation ends. In addition, there is material on the shipwreck of the San Pedro Alcantara, a voyage to the China Sea, and a map of the west coast of Central America.
Subject (Geographic):
Northwest Coast of North America--Discovery and exploration--Spanish and Northwest Passage
Subject (Name):
Atrevida (Corvette), Cordova, Luis de, Descubierta (Corvette), Eguia, Manuel de, Fernán-Núñez, Carlos José Gutiérrez de los Ríos y Rohan Chabot, conde de, 1742-1795, Gutierrez de Rubalcava, Joaquin, Malaspina, Alessandro, 1754-1809, Mazarredo, Joseph, Muñoz, Xavier, fl. 1786, Revillagigedo, Juan Vicente Güémez Pacheco de Padilla Horcasitas y Aguayo, conde de, 1740-1799, Sesma, Fermin, Sevena, Pedro de, and Valdés y Bazan, Antonio, 1744-1816
Papers pertaining to the 1789 Spanish exploration of the Northwest Coast of North America. Under the command of Alessandro Malaspina, the expedition sailed from Cadiz to the west coast of Africa, across the Atlantic to South America, south to the Falkland Islands, around Cape Horn, and north along the west coast to Acapulco, where the documentation ends. In addition, there is material on the shipwreck of the San Pedro Alcantara, a voyage to the China Sea, and a map of the west coast of Central America.
Subject (Geographic):
Northwest Coast of North America--Discovery and exploration--Spanish and Northwest Passage
Subject (Name):
Atrevida (Corvette), Cordova, Luis de, Descubierta (Corvette), Eguia, Manuel de, Fernán-Núñez, Carlos José Gutiérrez de los Ríos y Rohan Chabot, conde de, 1742-1795, Gutierrez de Rubalcava, Joaquin, Malaspina, Alessandro, 1754-1809, Mazarredo, Joseph, Muñoz, Xavier, fl. 1786, Revillagigedo, Juan Vicente Güémez Pacheco de Padilla Horcasitas y Aguayo, conde de, 1740-1799, Sesma, Fermin, Sevena, Pedro de, and Valdés y Bazan, Antonio, 1744-1816
Unsigned autograph manuscript calculation of the cost of transporting a slave from Montevideo, Uruguay to Lima, Peru through Chile. Lists expenses including food, clothing, hire of mules, sea passage, totalling 113 pesos.
Description:
Phillipps MS 16220. Purchased from Alan G. Thomas on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 1980. and Title reads: Calculo del costo que por razon de dños y transporte tiene un negro comprado en Montevideo con destino para venderse en la Ciudad de Lima, conduciendolo por la via de Chile.
Santillana, Iñigo López de Mendoza, marqués de, 1398-1458
Published / Created:
[between 1550 and 1600]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 489
Image Count:
3
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper, composed of two segments, formerly separate books. Part I: 1) Letter from Inigo Lopez de Mendoza, Marques de Santillana (1398-1458), to his nephew Pedro de Mendoza, Senor de almacan. Santillana promises to send a copy of his own sonnets, some proverbs, and sayings of the philosophers and of Seneca which Mendoza had requested, and discusses a translation of a letter of Seneca sent to him by Mendoza. 2) Reply of Mendoza to Santillana, about Santillana’s Sonnets. Artt. 3-25: sonnets by Santillana. Part II: 26) Pseudo-Seneca, Proverbia, Castilian tr. perhaps by Pedro Diaz de Toledo (d. 1499), Counsellor to Juan II of Castile, Chaplain to the Marques de Santillana, and later first bishop of Malaga. Each proverb is followed by an explanatory text. 27) Dichos de filosofos, in 29 parts, mostly lists: 4 things a king should do, 3 sorts of friends, etc. 28) Tacitus, Annales 14.52-56, in an unidentified Castilian translation.
Description:
Belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 8320; tag on spine). Sotheby's sale (16 June 1970, no. 1291). Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1970 as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke., Binding: Sixteenth/seventeenth-century. Original sewing on three small, tawed tapes laced into limp vellum case. Small pieces of unidentified Latin manuscript glued in as spine reinforcements. Two tawed thong fastenings. Inscription on spine: Prouerb. Moral [?]., Cataloged from microfilm by Albert Derolez., M. Duran, ed., Marques de Santillana: Poesias completas (Madrid, 1975) v. 1: pl. 2 of f. 119r. C. B. Faulhaber et al., Bibliography of Old Spanish Texts (Madison, 1984) p. 196, nos. 2331-37., Part I: thin paper; watermarks similar in design to Briquet Homme 7582., and Part II watermark: unidentified Latin cross in elongated, pointed oval.
Subject (Name):
Santillana, Iñigo López de Mendoza, marqués de, 1398-1458 and Tacitus, Cornelius
Bound with: Versio trilinguis Italica, Gallica, Hispanica historicorum tractatuum qui adversus episcopi Romani veraveriorem antichristianam tyrannidem, in Latinis tomis operum D. Mart. Lutheri extant : & opusculorum ejusdem quae ex professo in illius commiserandae ecclesiae doctores erroresq[ue] edita sunt / Hironymo Valentino cognomento de Cantoral, interprete ; appositus est ejusdem dialogus appellatus Neophitus, ubi de suscipienda vera fide & gratia evangelij cum silentio, spe, reverentia & humilitate, tractatur, In Latin, Italian, French and Spanish., and Second of two works bound together.
Subject (Name):
Cantoral, Hieronymus Valentinus de
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library