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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…

A Spanish relación about the entry of Charles Stuart, Prince of Wales, to the Court in Madrid, 13 March 1623, printed in Madrid.

A mythological painting by Paolo Veronese (c. 1528 - 1588). It was presented to Charles Stuart during his visit to Valladolid city on 16 September 1623. On display at the National Galleries of Scotland: National, Edinburgh.

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…

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,…

Title-page of the first edition of Sarpi’s 1619 Historia del Concilio Tridentino (fol. a1),

An early marble group by Giovanni Bologna (1529-1608). It was presented to Charles Stuart during his visit to Valladolid city on 16 September 1623. On display at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

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,…

The tradition of attributing the victory in the battle of the Alporchones to the intercession of St. Patrick is owed to Philip O'Sullivan Beare, one of the hundreds of Irish exiles who took refuge in Spain during the 17th century after Kinsale. How…

"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 ..."