Cancionero, etc
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Description
- Title
- Cancionero, etc
- Creator
- Santillana, Iñigo López de Mendoza, marqués de, 1398-1458
- Published / Created
- [between 1550 and 1600]
- Publication Place
- Spain
- Abstract
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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
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In Spanish.
Watermarks: Part I: similar in design to Briquet Homme 7582. Part II: unidentified Latin cross in elongated, pointed oval.
Script: Part I (ff. 1-120): Text written in large size italic with headings in less cursive bookhand. Part II (ff. 121-330): Written in a more compact italic script than Part I, but with similar types of headings.
Binding: 16th-17th centuries. 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 [?]". - Provenance
- Belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 8320). Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1970 as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke.
- Extent
- ff. ii + 330 + ii : 205 x 151 mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been partially digitized.
- Language
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Spanish
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Beinecke MS 489
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Translations
Manuscripts, Renaissance Spain 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- paper ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
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Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Name)
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Santillana, Iñigo López de Mendoza, marqués de, 1398-1458.
Tacitus, Cornelius. - Subject (Topic)
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Literature, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Philosophy, Medieval
Spanish poetry - Subjects
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Santillana, Iñigo López de Mendoza, marqués de, 1398-1458
Tacitus, Cornelius
Literature, Medieval > Translations
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Philosophy, Medieval
Spanish poetry > To 1500
Spain > 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
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- Citation
- Iñigo López de Mendoza Santillana, Cancionero. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9669461
- Object ID (OID)
- 9999011
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