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Martín de Herrera manuscript

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Description: This manuscript written by Martín de Herrera describes his and his family's service to the Spanish crown and the alleged misdeeds of Viceroy of New Spain, Álvaro Manrique de Zúñiga. These misdeeds include removing some of the Catholic Church's autonomy, dismissing members of the Treasury, replacing administrators with his own friends, and imposing regulations on the mercury, wine, and meat trades. Herrera also alleges that Manrique de Zúñiga was arresting or exiling any whistle blowers, including Herrera himself, who was jailed, probably in Cuba, when writing this manuscript. Herrera also writes about the hardships he and his brother, Diego, have endured, and their efforts to enlist the sympathy of the Consejo de Indias on their behalf.
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Production date: 1588.
Call number: mssHM 84508
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Derrotero de Indias of Luis de la Cruz

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Scans to CD of a manuscript held by the Museo Naval. Citation given as: Museo Naval de Madrid, Manuscript 465, 159 ff., Derrotero de Indias of Luis de la Cruz (early 17th century).

mssHM 83173

Derrotero : [manuscript]

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Derrotero with sailing instructions for the route from San Lucar, Spain, to the West Indies and Florida, with a description of duties and payment of ship's personnel (ff. 150v-177v) and table of latitudes (ff. 178-184). Dedicatory poem indicates that Luis de la Cruz is the author. Written probably about 1600, since Luis de la Cruz is first listed as master of a ship in 1585 and his name last appears in the records of the Archivo de Indias in Seville in a law suit of 1615. Internal evidence shows the volume was written after 1565 since the town of St. Augustine, Florida, founded in that year, is mentioned. Span folios: ff. 1-199v. Support: Paper. Watermark(s): Croix Latine not dissimilar from Briquet 5688 and 5704, both Perpignan (1596, 1595). Layout: Collation beginning with f. iv: 1-7²⁰ 8-10¹⁶(through f. 184) 11¹⁶(-16, now the pastedown and torn loose from the quire). 20-26 long lines with vertical bounding lines defined by folds in the paper. ff. v-199v: [Luis de la Cruz, Derrotero]: Incipit: Capitulo primero de la derrota de la barra De sant lucar a las yslas De canaria, Partiendo de la barra de san lucar ... Explicit: nombre de Jesus.

mssHM 30957

Natural y General Hystoria de las Indias, 1539-1548. [volume 1]

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Paper; ff. i (modern) + 71 + ii (1 contemporary, 1 modern); Vol. 1: 1-5¹² 6¹²(-12); 290 x 210 (220-232 x 105-110) mm. Written in the hand of the author. Catchwords enclosed in brown ink scrolls in the middle or right lower margins. Leaf signatures in roman numerals in the middle of the lower margin; quire and leaf signatures in a later hand in letters and arabic numerals, frequently including the seventh leaf of a quire, in the right lower margin close under the text. 32-38 long lines; vertical bounding lines ruled in dry point. The manuscript was written probably in Santo Domingo between 1539-46 and completed in Spain in 1546-48: the dates given in the text are March 1539, in Book IV, chap. 7 and 1548 in the prologue of Book VI. Illustrated with 24 pen and ink drawings by the author, a few shaded in black lead. Marginal notes in 3 hands: i, the author's corrections, additions and directions to the printer; ii, note on f. 49 of vol. 1 made after 1580; iii, pencilled notes in English in vol. 2 with the book numbers, probably made by a bookseller. Contents: [Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés] Historia general y natural de las Indias. Spanish. In vol. 1, Book VI: Este es el libro que Capitan Gonzalo Fernandez Fiço de la Natural y General Hystoria de las Indias ... [f. 1, Prologue:] Poco tiene que hazer ... [f. 2v, Text:] Capitulo primero del libro ... Bivian los Indios del esta ysla de hayti ... no deve ser sin misterio y secreto de la natura el qual yo no alcanço. Fin del presente libro.

mssHM 177

De animalibus : [manuscript]

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ff. 1-98v. [Aristotle] [De animalibus]. Incipit: Quedam partes corporum animalium dicuntur non composite et sunt partes que. Explicit: que accidunt non ex necessitate sed propter aliquid et propter causam finalem et propter causam moventem. Explicit liber aristotilis de naturis animalium. Sed intitulatus est et distinctus secundum novam translationem et sunt in hoc volumine 18 lib[ri, x] de hystoriis animalium, 3 de partibus animalium et v de generatione animalium, vii de progressu animalium hic deficit cum quo essent xix. Rubric: Incipit liber primus aristotilis de naturis animalium quem transtulit magister michael scotus de greco in latinum et habet in se x libros. Rubrica. Latin. Aristotle, De naturis animalium, De partibus animalium, De generatione animalium, trans. Michael Scot, completed by 1220; text not printed in full. See AL 80-81 and 245 where this manuscript is described. The text here is complete: the scribe erroneously repeated the rubric of Book VII on f. 26, thus his calculations at the end of the manuscript were off by one. Marginalia and nota marks by various readers of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

mssHM 1035

De ludo scachorum : [manuscript]

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ff. 1-47v. [Jacobus de Cessolis] De ludo scaccorum. Incipit: Inter omnia mala signa in homine unum est quando homo non timet deum per culpam. Explicit: ut in ipso possumus in perpetuum regnare cum ipso et vivere ipso prestante, hunc autem librum in honorem nobilium et solatium et maxime scientium construxi. Amen. Rubric: De causa inventionis ludi et sub quo rege inventus fuit capitulum primum. Tractatus primus de causa inventionis ludi predicti, capitulum primum sub quo rege predictus ludus inventus fuit. Latin. Kaeppeli, SOPMA 2066 citing this manuscript. E. Köpke, ed. Jacobus de Cessolis. Mitteilungen aus den Handschriften der Ritter-Akademie zu Brandenburg an der Havel (Brandenburg a. H. 1879). The text is preceded by a prologue ("Incipit prohemium libri compositi de ludo scachorum a fratre de sexolis ordinis predicatorum, Multorum fratrum ordinis nostri et diversorum scolarium precibus persuasus . . .") and a chapter list.

mssHM 1037

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Canal de Picardie: manuscript

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The manuscript describes the costs and specifications of work to be done to construct the Canal de Picardie in the province of Picardy in northern France along the Somme River. It was prepared by Charbisse and Prefontene, egineers to King XV. It includes details regarding: geology of the area; locks and bridges to be built; access roads; canal embankments; construction materials needed; removal of houses; aqueducts to be built; and finally, the total cost of the project.

mssHM 74897

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