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Derrotero : [manuscript]

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Description
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.
Type
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Date
[between 1600 and 1615]
Call number
mssHM 30957
Creator
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Provenance
Notes on front cover "SN 118," and on front pastedown, "$SEE"[?]. A letter, dated 22 July 1968, on file in the Huntington Library from Dra. Lourdes Díaz-Trechuelo of the Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americans de Sevilla suggests that this manuscript may have been in the private library of the Marqués de Ayamonte, to whom the book is dedicated. After his death it probably passed into the library of his relative, the Conde-Duque de Olivares, a library consulted by A. León Pinelo for his bibliography published in 1629.
Restrictions
RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.
Dimensions
142 x 195 mm
Associated organization
Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
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