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Daniel Finan ('Daniel y Finan'), Dioc. Tuam. Irish student at the University of Valladolid, 1588.
Entry for 8 Dec 1588. UVa Matriculation Book, AUVa-LIB 33, 1588-1601. Subject: Law.
Thomas of Ireland's Manipulus florum (1483). Ff. 42v-43r
This florilegium, composed around 1306, compiles over 5,000 citations attributed to classical, patristic and medieval authors, all organised thematically and alphabetically, from abstinentia to Christus. In Spain it also spread very quickly,…
Hugh Semple's De mathematicis disciplinis (1635). Title page
The dissemination of the mathematical science in seventeenth-century Spain, as well as the introduction of the Neperian logarithms, is owed to the Scottish Jesuit priest Hugh Semple, seminarian at the Scottish College of Madrid, which his uncle…
Mercator's Nuevo Atlas de los Reynos de Escocia e Irlanda (1662)
Blauer’s Atlas novus, which incorporates Mercator's cylindrical projection, condenses the astounding evolution that cartography had gone through since the earliest printed Ptolemee. Surely, the ornamentation in the representation of this region of…
John Barclay's Argenis, transl. by José Pellicer de Salas (1626)
Undoubtedly, Argenis, novel and political treatise alike, was one of the books that proliferated in the Spanish libraries of the Golden Age. Its style influenced Baltasar Gracian's prose; Calderón de la Barca adapted its plot for his comedy Argenis y…
Hector Boece's Scotorum historiae (1575). Ff. 285v-286r
This History of the Scottish people by Hector Boece, which reconstructs the political and ecclesiastical history of Scotland up to 1438, was one of the first to be published. It was read all over Europe, including Spain, with great success. The note…
Thomas Smith's Respublica, sive status Regni Scottiae et Hiberniae (1627). Frontispice
Compilation of histories and descriptions of ancient Scotland and Ireland, written by sixteenth-century English and Scottish antiquaries, published in miniature by Elzevier in his collection of petites républiques. The expurgatory note, which…
Diego de Saavedra Fajardo's Idea de vn principe politico christiano (1655). Pp. 662-663
After the Peace of Westphalia (1648) and following the end of the English Civil Wars, Spain and England begin their respective histories as modern states: politics are now separated from religion and both enjoy independent sovereignties. The engraved…
