Error in paging: no. 393-394 repeated., Signatures: *-**4, A-Z6, Aa-Zz6, Aaa-Ddd6, Eee7, Fff2., The frontispiece and plates are engraved., and Title vignette (royal arms of Portugal).
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
Leprince de Beaumont, Madame (Jeanne-Marie), 1711-1780
Published / Created:
1778
Call Number:
GEN MSS VOL 562
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Manuscript in an unidentified hand, signed with the initials "D. T. B. B.", of a Spanish translation of this epistolary novel by Leprince de Beaumont.
Alternative Title:
Lettres de Madame Du Montier. Spanish
Description:
Binding: full marbled calf; marbled endpapers., Former call number: Uncat MSS 699., and Madame Leprince de Beaumont (1711-1780) was a French novelist, best-known for her version of Beauty and the beast.
Subject (Name):
Leprince de Beaumont,--Madame--(Jeanne-Marie),--1711-1780
Subject (Topic):
French fiction--18th century, French literature--Translations into Spanish, Spanish literature--18th century, and Spanish literature--Translations into French
3 of 6 works bound together. For associated records please search Orbis by call number: CF1412 A48. and BEIN CF1412 A48: Imperfect: p. 25-50 holed, with loss of most page numbers. Binder's title: Manifiestos.