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Partida del serenissimo principe de Walia (1623)
"Siendo la venida del Serenissimo Principe de Vvalia a estos Reynos la mas nueua accion que en persona Real han visto los siglos, en que escureçio los exemplares antiguos, pasmo las naciones y dio cierta esperança de grandes felicidades ..."
Verdadera relación de la entrada del Príncipe Don Carlos de Inglaterra en la Corte de Madrid (1623)
A Spanish relación about the entry of Charles Stuart, Prince of Wales, to the Court in Madrid, 13 March 1623, printed in Madrid.
Ptolemy's Geographicae enarrationis libri octo (1525). Map 29: Tabvla Nova Hiberniae, Angliae et Scotiae
The geography of the British Isles as it could be known to the first generation of college students. It is one of the 29 new tables with which the editio princeps of Ptolemy's Geographia (1477) was updated in 1522. The map shows Scotland, Ireland,…
A sermon on the martyrdom of St Thomas of Canterbury. Fol. 128r
An unknown sermon on the martyrdom of Thomas Becket, murdered by knights of Henry II, King England. The cult of the saint arrived in Castile through the daughter of the English monarch, Elaeonor Plantagenet, wife to Alfonso VIII and Queen Consort of…
Diego de Valera's Crónica de Hyspaña (1534). Fol. 92r
This chronicle on the ancient history of Spain and compendium of that of Castile down to the reign of King Juan II was commissioned by Isabella the Catholic. Fol. 92r (col. 2) reports the landing in Galicia of John of Gaunt with his troops. It was…
Fernán Pérez de Guzmán's Chronicle of John II of Castile (1517). Fol. [23v]
By the Treaty of Bayonne of 1388, Catherine of Lancaster became wife to Prince Henry, heir to the throne of Castile, and first Princess of Asturias in history. The later Queen Consort of Henry III of Castile and regent of the kingdom during the…
William of Ockham's Compendium errorum & Summaria (1494, 1495). Binding
This incunable, printed in Lyon in 1494, contains two works by the English Franciscan William of Ockham, written against the second Pope of Avignon John XXII. Still preserved in its contemporary binding (white tawed leather over wooden boards, with…
Paolo Giovio's Regionum et insularum atque locorum descriptiones (1578). Pp. 76-77
The divorce of Henry VIII from Catherine of Aragon swerved the course of the Anglo-Spanish dynastic alliances. In this work, the papal historian Paolo Giovio, a contemporary, recounts the geography and history of England down to the Anglican schism.…
Relacion del suceso que tubo el principe de España Phelipe Segundo desde los 12 de Julio de 1554 que partio della a Inglaterra a se casar. Fol. 138r
A relación of the journey that Prince Philip of Spain took to England in 1554 to become husband of Mary Tudor and King of England and Ireland.
Carlos Coloma's Las guerras de los Estados Baxos (1635). Pp. 18-19
Pp. 18-19, on the Spanish Armada anchored off Calais on 27th July, 1588 and the English launching fireships against it.