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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    lada escala de paradis. Colophon. Aquesta patita obra que tracta dela escala de paradis: fou acabada per Mestre lohan rosenhach [sic]. Any Mil. cccc. novantacinch . A.xxvij. de noembre. En Barghinona. QUARTO. With a border cut in wood or soft metal on the second leaf, and ornamental initials. This copy, which comes from the Salvil and Heredia collections, is said to be unique. Bought in 1898. QUADERNO. Este es el quaderno delas leyes nueuas dela her- mandad del Rey y dela Reyna nuestros Senores y por su mandado fechas enla junta general en torde- langua notificadas el ano del nascimiento del nuestro saluador lesu cristo De mill y quatrocientos y ochenta y seys anos. folio. Printed at Seville by Ungut and Polonus. Though these laws were issued in i486, this edition is printed in a type not used before 1494. The volume contains, in addition to the above, the following pieces: i. Leyes del Quaderno nueuo delas rentas delas alcaualas y franquezas. Fecho enla vega de Granada (10 Dec. 1491). Printed at Salamanca about 1499. 2. Leyes hechas ... por la breuedad y orden delos pleytos. Fechas enla villa de madrid aho del sehor. de mil. cccc. xc. ix. Also printed at Salamanca. The cut of the arms of Spain on the title is reproduced on the opposite page. It was bought by Heredia at the Miro sale in 1878, and by the Museum at the first Heredia sale in 1891. MARINEVS, Lucius. Begin. Ad magnanimum et illustrem ac uirtutis cultorem Rodericum Pementellum Benauenti co- mitem clarissimum Lucii Marine! Siculi praefatio. Leaf 4. Ad Rodericum Pementellum comitem Benauentanum uirum magnanimum et illustrem Lucii Marine! Siculi de Hispaniae laudibus liber primus incipit. folio. This is believed to be the only extant copy of this book, remarkable both for its subject, and from its having been, as is