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A medley of Spanish (and Latin) pieces, apparently partly taken from printed volumes, written in several hands in the 17th and 18th century

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MS. Add. A. 157
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A medley of Spanish (and Latin) pieces, apparently partly taken from printed volumes and bound in about A.D. 1860, among which are:

  1. (fol. 6b). 'Instrucciones que Juan de Vega y el conde de Portalegre dieron â sus hijos embiandolos el vno â Flandes y el otro á la Corte';
  2. (fol. 32d). 'El tresnes [?] de el conde Farruco, de Anttonio Ramirez de Arellano ...Noviembre 17 de 1521 [?]', a play;
  3. (fols. 39, 67v, 221). Poems (one from Arch. Σ. III. 72);
  4. (fol. 59). 'Discursos festiuos y entretenidos ...' by Antonio Joseph Sanchez de Huete, 1752;
  5. (fol.104b). 'La Perinola, discurso de don Francisco [Gomez] de Quevedo Villegas contra el libro Para Todos que escriuio ...Juan Perez de Montalvan', from Arch. Seld. A. I. 2;
  6. (fol. 133c). 'Nacimiento, vida y muerte de don Roderigo Calderon ... por don Geronimo Garçon de Torquemada ...';
  7. (fol. 170). 'Gothorum Hispaniae regum chronologia ...[A.D. 369-712], auctore Joanne Baptista Perezio ...';
  8. (fol. 177). 'Ludovicae Sigcæ Toletanæ ...Epistolæ ad varios missæ, 1545-59', in Latin, copies: after this art. before fol. 204 a large number of leaves have been removed, numbered '204' - '273';
  9. (fol. 204). 'Exercicio ordinario de la academia del sabado a 14 de Junio 1704 ...', at Madrid (?), chiefly poems;
  10. (fol. 227). 'Apologia del govierno de ... don Juan de Austria, sobre el titulo de la Visita de la Esperanza y el Tiempo. En Lerida, por los Elzevirios, 1679'.

Dates

  • Creation: written in several hands in the 17th and 18th century

Extent

292 Leaves

Language of Materials

  • Multiple languages
  • Spanish; Castilian
  • Latin

Shelfmark

MS. Add. A. 157

Other Finding Aids

Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. V, no. 28381.

Physical Facet

On paper

Dimensions

9 × 6 7/8 in.

Repository Details

Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository

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