Volume 1

Catalogue of the manuscripts in the Spanish language in the British museum / by Don Pascual de Gayangos.

  • British Museum. Department of Manuscripts
Date:
1875-1893
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Catalogue of the manuscripts in the Spanish language in the British museum / by Don Pascual de Gayangos. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( ) CLASS II. BELLES-LETTRES AND SCIENCE. SECT. I.—TEANSLATIONS FROM THE CLASSICS. Add. 21,245. Pajjer, in folio, if. 97, xv. cent. “ La Iliada de Homero, en romance.” 1. A translation of the first, second, third, fourth, and tenth books of Homer’s Iliad, made at the command of, and dedicated to, the Marques de Santillana [Don Iñigo Lopez de Mendoza], from the Latin version of Pietro Candido, with finely illuminated initials and borders, besides the portrait of the translator (a Benedictine monk?) at the beginning. 2. The life of Homer, translated from the said Candido . f. 58 3. “ El verdadero argumento de la istoria troyana ” . f. 63 6 4. Account and description of Rome; its government &c. in old times .......... f. 65 5. Description of Asia, Africa, and Europe . . . f. 75 6. Glossary of Latin words, chiefly relating to “ indumentaria ” (dress), explained in Spanish . . . . . . f. 82 6 7. Letter said to have been written to the Emperor Nero by a king of Ai-ahia, named Euax, upon the properties of precious stones f. 85 Add. 21,120. Vellum, in folio, ff. 238, xv. cent. “ Etuicas de Aristóteles. Traducción de Karlos, Principe de Viana;” containing:— 1. “Prologo del muy illustreDon Carlos Principe de Viana, primo- génito de Navarra, duque de Nemos (Nemours) e de Gandia, adregado al muy alto e excellente Principe e muy poderoso Rey e Señor Don Alfonso tercio Rey de Aragon e de las dos Secilias etc. su muy rcduptable sennor e thio, de la translación de las Ethicas de Aristo-
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