Diego Cuelbis, Thesoro chorographico de las Espannas (volume 3)
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This manuscript is the third of three volumes of Thesoro chorographico de las Espannas, a diary of a journey through Spain and Portugal in the years 1599 and 1600, undertaken by Diego Cuelbis of the city of Leipzig, and a friend named Joel Koris, who accompanied him. The diary is written in Span...
Copper engraving of the royal site of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Madrid
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This engraving is part of a 3-volume set of Thesoro chorographico de las Espannas, a diary of a journey through Spain and Portugal in the years 1599 and 1600, undertaken by Diego Cuelbis of the city of Leipzig, and a friend named Joel Koris, who accompanied him. The diary is written in Spanish a...
Collection of Latin inscriptions with translations and poems in French
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Contents: ff. 1r-8r: 'Inscriptions de la Place des Victories, par Regnier des Marais'; Latin inscriptions , dated 1643-1686, with French translations. ff. 9r-14r: 'De Erasmo'; Latin inscriptions on Erasmus with many written at Paris by Jean-Baptiste de Santeul [Santolius] (b. 1630, d. 1697) a...
Cicero, Selected Works, in a Castilian translation by Alonso de Cartagena
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A selection of Cicero's philosophical and rhetorical works in a Castilian translation by the bishop, diplomat and historian Alonso de Cartagena (b. 1384, d. 1456). Contents: f. 1r-v: Numerous pen trials and inscriptions in different hands, including 'hic Liber est / Maiocenchari', probably ad...
Form of admission into the Order of the Golden Fleece in Latin, French and Spanish
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Manuscript form of admission into the Order of the Golden Fleece in three languages, with printed initials (rubricated and painted in gold leaf), ornaments and heraldic devices (ff. 2v, 11v, 17r).
Contents: ff. 2r-138r: A Spanish-Latin dictionary. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1r: An excerpt from Stefano Guazzo, La civil conversatione (1574): 'Offende il cielo el santo amor discioglie / Quel che con empie man batte la moglie'.
This collection predominantly features medical texts in Latin and English. It contains a section (ff. 97r-133v) of Middle English recipes that ends with Latin prayers against the plague and an indenture from Sempringham Priory in Lincolnshire, suggesting that the recipes may originate from this ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century-1st half of the 18th century
Royal letters and warrants, from the end of the reign of King James VI and I, 1621-1624. ff. 1r-2v: Letter from King James VI and I to Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex and Lord Treasurer. Sending a reminder to furnish George Villiers, Marquess of Buckingham, with 10,000 l. for his wife’s...
Contents: ff. 1r-164v: Antiphonary; with Latin psalms and hymns for liturgical feasts of the Temporale, and featuring a few instructions in Spanish on f. 23r (‘Para la Noche de Navidad’) and f. 28r (‘ Nota que el Invitatorio de los Martyres sirue tanbien para los Confessores mutato nomine’); im...
