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1. Cronica del Rey don Enrique IV.
- Creator:
- Enríquez del Castillo, Diego, 1431-1503?
- Published / Created:
- [between 1500 and 1525]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 27
- Image Count:
- 502
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- 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
- Description:
- In Spanish., Watermarks: unidentified hand., Script: Written by several scribes in late Spanish bookhands with cursive and humanistic features. Some headings in large gothic display script., and 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.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Castile (Spain)
- Subject (Name):
- Enríquez del Castillo, Diego, 1431-1503? and Henry IV, King of Castile and Leon, 1425-1474.
- Subject (Topic):
- Biography, Canon law, Manuscripts, Medieval, Spanish literature, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Cronica del Rey don Enrique IV.
2. History
- Creator:
- Herodian
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 182
- Image Count:
- 238
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (sturdy) of a translation by Diego Guillen de Avila (active 1487-1516), from Politian's Latin translation of Herodian, History of the Empire from the Death of Marcus (in eight books covering the years 180 to 238, in Greek).
- Description:
- In Spanish., Watermarks somewhat similar to Briquet Main 10793., Script: Written by three scribes, in gothic cursive (cortesana) script. Scribe 1 (ff. 1v-3v) uses a large, sprawling hand; Scribe 2 (ff. 5r-86v) a compact, regular one; Scribe 3 (ff. 87r-112r) a large and sprawling one., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Worn red velvet with 2 brass clasp-and-catch fastenings.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Rome
- Subject (Name):
- Herodian.
- Subject (Topic):
- Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Spanish literature, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > History
3. Le colera de Napoleon [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1808 or 1809?]
- Call Number:
- 808.00.00.38+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A Spanish version of Gillray’s 1803 satire ‘Maniac Raving’s-or-Little Boney in a Strong Fit’, the texts in the plate adapted to the Spanish relationship with France during the Peninsular War - after the invading French armies were defeated by the Spanish in Andalusia at the Battle of Bailen ‘Napoleon is frantic with rage at the news from Spain... He blames Godoy (whom he had made ‘Prince of the Algarves’) for deceiving him, apostrophizes Talleyrand, reproaches Dupont, and his second-in-command Vedel, for the capitulation of Baylen... his deceptions are discovered by the ‘perfidious Englishman’, probably Sir Hew Dalrymple, the Governor of Gibraltar’ (British Museum catalogue).
- Description:
- Title from text above image., Text below image begins: Noticioso Napoleon de qe sus exercitos de España ..., and Copy of a print by James Gillray; for the original, see no. 9998 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8. For a more simplified Spanish copy, see no. 11058.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- France
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and Gillray, James, 1756-1815
- Subject (Topic):
- History, Foreign public opinion, Spanish, Political satire, Spanish, Anger, Globes, Chairs, Documents, Fire, and Smoke
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Le colera de Napoleon [graphic].
4. Linea de los Reyes Moros de Granada
- Published / Created:
- [1575-1599]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 633
- Image Count:
- 24
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of the history of the final days of the Moorish kingdom of Granada
- Description:
- In Spanish., Watermark: resembles Briquet 11272 (Toulouse, 1570)., Script: copied by a single scribe in a Spanish version of Humanistica Cursiva Formata. The first word of each paragraph is written in Capitalis. The Latin formula at the end is in Humanistica Textualis Formata. A few marginal notes, mostly by a later hand., The text recounts the history of the final days of the Moorish kingdom of Granada through the conquest by Gonsalvo de Cordoba, the "great captain" in the service of the Catholic Kings of Spain, 1492. This is the final quire of a manuscript that contained the full history of the Moorish Kings of Granada., and Disbound. Extracted from a larger manuscript.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., Granada (Kingdom), and Spain
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval, Kings and rulers, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Linea de los Reyes Moros de Granada
5. Relacion de las cosas de Navarra desde el Rey Don Carlos de Navarra
- Published / Created:
- [between 1575 and 1600]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 634
- Container / Volume:
- (Box)
- Image Count:
- 9
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of a chronicle of the Kingdom of Navarre from the death in 1425 of Charles III, King of Navarre, through circa 1513, with the conquest of Navarre by Spain
- Description:
- In Spanish., Single quire of 8 leaves, with pagination 113-127 [128]., Layout: 1 column, about 36 lines., Script: copied by one hand in a Spanish version of Humanistica Cursiva Formata. "Finis" at the end is written in Capitalis., The text discusses members of the royal family of Navarre during the period of 1425 through circa 1513, their marriages, the royal succession, and a disruption to the line of succession that led to civil war. The chronicle closes with a justification for the rule of Navarre by Spain, based upon the historical ties of the kings of Navarre to Spain., Watermark: resembles Briquet 13995 (Bordeaux, 1550) and 14008 (Montreuil, 1559)., No decoration., and Disbound. Text complete, but extracted from a larger manuscript. First leaf repaired, with some loss to marginalia on verso.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., Navarre (Kingdom), Navarre (Spain), and Spain
- Subject (Name):
- Blanca, Queen, consort of Juan II, King of Aragon, -1441., Catherine, Queen of Navarre, 1468-1518., Carlos, Prince of Viana, 1421-1461., Charles III, King of Navarre, 1361-1425., Ferdinand V, King of Spain, 1452-1516., John II, King of Aragon, 1397-1479., John III, King of Navarre, 1469-1516., and Juana Enríquez, Consort of Juan II, King of Aragon, 1425-1468.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval, Kings and rulers, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Relacion de las cosas de Navarra desde el Rey Don Carlos de Navarra
