Three hundred notable books added to the Library of the British Museum under the keepership of Richard Garnett 1890-1899.

Date:
1899
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Credit: Three hundred notable books added to the Library of the British Museum under the keepership of Richard Garnett 1890-1899. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The first printed edition of this work was issued in French at Geneva in 1478. The present copy of the edition of 1490 belonged in the seventeenth century ‘ ad locum S. Francisci Spediae,’ and was bought for the Museum in 1896. Another edition, printed at Alcala de Henares by Miguel de Eguia, 1527, with a woodcut illustration and border on the titlepage, and a large cut of the Crucifixion, signed I.D., at the end, was bought at the Seilliere sale in 1890. LLABIA, Ramon de. [Cancionero.] Begin. Prologo fecho ala senora dona francisqujna de bardaxi mujer d’l magnifico senor mossen joan fernandez de heredia gouernador de aragon per ramon dellabia en que le endere^a el presente libro. Leaf 2. Cobias fechas por fernan perez de guzman de vicios y virtudes: y ciertos ymnos de nuestra senyora. folio. This Cancionero, which is probably the earliest book of its class with the exception of that of Centenera at Zamora (see above), appears to have been printed by Paul Hurus at Zaragoza, about 1490. Bought at the second Heredia sale in 1892. PEDRO, Infante. Begin. Coplas fechas por el muy illustre Senor infante don Pedro de portogal: enlas quales ay Mil versos con sus glosas, contenientes del menes- precio: e contempto delas cosas fermosas del mundo: e demostrando la su vana: e feble beldad. End. Acaban se las coplas fechas por el muy illustre senor infante don Pedro de portogal. Deo gracias. FOLIO. Printed in the same type as the Cancionero by Ramon de Llabia, and therefore assignable to the press of Paul Hurus at Zaragoza, about 1490. From the Salva and Heredia libraries. Bought at the second Heredia sale in 1892. CAVALCA, Domenico. El espejo dela cruz. Leaf 2. Comienza el prologo enel deuoto y moral libro intitulado espejo dela