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- Creator:
- Navarra y Rocafull, Melchor de, duke of La Palata
- Published / Created:
- 1689 November 18
- Call Number:
- MS 1775
- Container / Volume:
- Box 7, folder 30-31
- Image Count:
- 1
- Description:
- An extensive and detailed report on the administration of the Duke of La Palata, who was viceroy of Peru in the second half of the seventeenth century. Includes information on ecclesiastical, economic, cultural, military and political affairs.
- Found in:
- Manuscripts and Archives > Andean collection (MS 1775) > Part I > Peru > "Relación del gobierno del Perú."
- 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
7.
- 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
- Published / Created:
- circa 1650-1871
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 431
- Container / Volume:
- Box 2, folder 44
- Image Count:
- 117
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Christopher Columbus family collection (Beinecke MS 431) > Carpeta que contiene diversas cartas, consultas y observaciones relativo todo a la testamentaria, etc. Cartas manuscritas de Diego de Colon y otros, copias manuscritas legalizadas, algunas en Cuba ano 1852
- 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
10.
- Published / Created:
- 1473-1890.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 340
- Image Count:
- 349
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- A collection of documents bearing the signatures of rulers or important personages of France; most are preceded or followed by an engraving of the person. Mounted so that both sides of the document are visible
- Description:
- In French, English, Italian, Latin and Spanish., Collected, mounted and bound in one volume during the 19th century., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Dark blue goatskin, gilt, by Riviere and Son.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and France
- Subject (Name):
- Anne, Queen, consort of Louis XIII, King of France, 1601-1666., Catherine de Médicis, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of France, 1519-1589, Charles VIII, King of France, 1470-1498, Charles IX, King of France, 1550-1574, Charles X, King of France, 1757-1836, Eugénie, Empress, consort of Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1826-1920, Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1578-1637, Francis I, King of France, 1494-1547, Francis II, King of France, 1544-1560, Henry II, King of France, 1519-1559, Henry III, King of France, 1551-1589, Henry IV, King of France, 1553-1610, Louis XI, King of France, 1423-1483, Louis XII, King of France, 1462-1515, Louis XIII, King of France, 1601-1643, Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715, Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793, Louis Philippe, King of the French, 1773-1850, Louise, de Savoie, duchesse d'Angoulême, 1476-1531, Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France, 1553-1615, Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793, Marie Leszczyńska, Queen, consort of Louis XV, King of France, 1703-1768, Marie de Médicis, Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France, 1573-1642, Marie-Thérèse, Queen, consort of Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1683, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, and Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1808-1873
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Politics and government
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Documents