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Cancionero, etc
Title
Cancionero, etc.
Created
Spain, [between 1550 and 1600]
Physical Description
ff. ii + 330 + ii : paper ; 205 x 151 mm.
Language
Spanish
Notes
Watermarks: Part I: similar in design to Briquet Homme 7582. Part II: unidentified Latin cross in elongated, pointed oval.
Script: Part I (ff. 1-120): Text written in large size italic with headings in less cursive bookhand. Part II (ff. 121-330): Written in a more compact italic script than Part I, but with similar types of headings.
Binding: 16th-17th centuries. Original sewing on three small, tawed tapes laced into limp vellum case. Small pieces of unidentified Latin manuscript glued in as spine reinforcements. Two tawed thong fastenings. Inscription on spine: "Prouerb. Moral [?]".
In Spanish.
Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Barbara Shailor.
Provenance
Belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 8320). Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1970 as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke.
Access and use
Material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript on paper, composed of two segments, formerly separate books. Part I: 1) Letter from Inigo Lopez de Mendoza, Marques de Santillana (1398-1458), to his nephew Pedro de Mendoza, Senor de almacan. Santillana promises to send a copy of his own sonnets, some proverbs, and sayings of the philosophers and of Seneca which Mendoza had requested, and discusses a translation of a letter of Seneca sent to him by Mendoza. 2) Reply of Mendoza to Santillana, about Santillana's Sonnets. Artt. 3-25: sonnets by Santillana. Part II: 26) Pseudo-Seneca, Proverbia, Castilian tr. perhaps by Pedro Diaz de Toledo (d. 1499), Counsellor to Juan II of Castile, Chaplain to the Marques de Santillana, and later first bishop of Malaga. Each proverb is followed by an explanatory text. 27) Dichos de filosofos, in 29 parts, mostly lists: 4 things a king should do, 3 sorts of friends, etc. 28) Tacitus, Annales 14.52-56, in an unidentified Castilian translation.
Publications
M. Duran, ed., Marques de Santillana: Poesias completas (Madrid, 1975) v. 1: pl. 2 of f. 119r. C. B. Faulhaber et al., Bibliography of Old Spanish Texts (Madison, 1984) p. 196, nos. 2331-37.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
February 17, 2011
References
Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 489.
Iñigo López de Mendoza Santillana, Cancionero. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Iñigo López de Mendoza Santillana, Cancionero. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Renaissance - Spain - 16th century.
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