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1. Cancionero, etc
- Creator:
- 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
- Subject (Topic):
- Literature, Medieval --Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval --Connecticut --New Haven, Philosophy, Medieval, and Spanish poetry --To 1500
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Cancionero, etc
2. Relacion y discursos del descubrimiento, poblacion y pacificacion de este Nuevo Reyno de Leon, Temperamente y calidad de la tierra hechos por el Capitan Alonso de Leon.
- Creator:
- León, Alonso de, ca. 1610-1661
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-327
- Image Count:
- 15
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- The first section, a copy of Alonso de Leon's narrative, carries the account to 1649, the second, in the same hand, continues the narrative to 1689, and, the third, is an account by Fernando Sánchez de Zamora, "Viajo...de Don Alonso de Leon...desde la provincia de Coahuila a la Bahia de Espiritu Santo y provincia de Tejas en 26 de Marzo de 1690."
- Subject (Geographic):
- Texas--History--To 1846
- Subject (Name):
- León, Alonso de,--ca. 1610-1661 and Sánchez de Zamora, Fernando,--fl. 1659-1689
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Relacion y discursos del descubrimiento, poblacion y pacificacion de este Nuevo Reyno de Leon, Temperamente y calidad de la tierra hechos por el Capitan Alonso de Leon.
3. [Selection from] Correspondence received by Governor Jose Joaquin de Arrillaga 1807-1810
- Creator:
- Goycochea, Felipe
- Published / Created:
- 1810 June 27
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-1486 C128
- Collection Title:
- Correspondence with Capt. Manuel Rodriguez,
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Alternative Title:
- [Autograph letter signed] 1810 June 27 [to] el Superintendente General
- Subject (Geographic):
- California --History --To 1846
- Subject (Name):
- Rodri´guez, Manuel, 1785-1818 and Arrillaga, Jose Joaquin
- Subject (Topic):
- Missions --California
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Selection from] Correspondence received by Governor Jose Joaquin de Arrillaga 1807-1810