Sales catalogue 528: Maggs Bros

Date:: 1929

Reference:: WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/83

Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 528: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Spanish Literature—continued. STRICTLY PROHIBITED BY THE INQUISITION IN ALL LANGUAGES. 174 GAMALIEL neuvamente traduzido en lengua castellana: afadido: his- toriado: y con mucha diligencia reconocido: y emendado: contiene en si lo siguiente, Title in red and black Gothic Letter within ornamental woodcut ‘border, full-page woodcut of the Crucifixion on verso; numerous other woodcuts in the text, which is in Gothic Letter. Small ato, half morocco. {| Seville, 1534. | £21 The Castilian translation by Juan de Molina, from the original Valencian. As this excessively rare book lacks the colophon and last page or pages of text, it is impossible to give its date with certainty, but a manuscript note on the fly-leaf gives it as 1534. Escudero (No. 348) merely cites Sr. Gayangos’ note as follows (without describing the book or quoting the title): Gamabiel, Seville, 1534, 4to. Other editions are cited by Perez Pastor (Tolido), No. 140, and in Palau’s Manual (IH, p. 299), but each has a slightly different title to this one. Unknown to Salva. [There are 16 leaves with marginal repairs, of which one lacks a small portion of the originai text. | 175 GOMEZ MIEDES (Bernardino). La Historia del muy alto e invencible Rey Don Jayme de Aragon, primero deste nombre tlamado El Conquis- tador. With woodcut Coat-of-Arms on title and full-page woodcut portrait of the King. Small folio, crimson morocco, gilt back, g. é. Valencia, viuda de Pedro de Huete, 1584. £18 18s Palau III, p. 361. Nice copy of the history of Alfonso I of Aragon (1104-1134), who was known as Alfonso VII of Castile. i760 GONZALO (Arias). | Memorial en defensa de las Mugeres de Espana y de los vestidos y adornos de que usan. Al Rey N. Sor. Small 4to, doards. Lisbon, 1636. . £7 10s Salva, No. 3905. Palau’s Manual, I, p. 109. A curious and interesting memorial in defence of Spanish women and their dress and adornment of the day. The author was a licentiate, and replies with spirit to the unfavourable criticism directed by some other licentiate, in a publication entitled Rogacion en detestacion, against their contemporary women’s dress. In addition to moralising on the infinite superiority of the human race above all creation, in being free to choose and change their raiment at will, the author brings in many amusing arguments in favour of the voluminous and costly dress of the seventeenth century; even advancing the theory that if Spain did not indirectly encourage a taste in dress by trading in textile with the Indies (whence so much of the royal treasury’s gold and silver emanated), the growing taste for purple and fine linen would throw open the American ports to foreign competition in materials. There are many interesting references to the details of the costume of his period and of biblical and classical times.

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