Princeton University, Princeton MS. 174.

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS2233

Shelfmark:

Princeton MS. 174.

Title:

Essays

Place:

Spain

Spain TGN

Southern Netherlands

Southern Netherlands TGN

Date:

between 1525 and 1575

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Spanish

Spanish WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 25 leaves : paper ; 295-315 x 195-218 (240-270 x 105-160) mm bound to 322 x 224 mm.

Note:

Incipit: Draft of an epistolary essay "En esta translacio que de la Ulyxea de Homero hize, Sacratissimo, y muy grande Rey Principe, y Señor nuestro, he visto claramente ser verdad lo que Aristoteles dize que los poetas mas que otro genero de escritores aman sus composiciones y trobas ..." -- Draft of an essay on Homer "Gran merced recebi en que vuestra merced me diese parte desta labor tanbien...
Explicit: Draft of an epistolary essay "... donde no estare con temor de offender con prolixidad como agora." -- Draft of an essay on Homer "... y a los Señores M.S. de Prioli, y Donato Rullo. De Bruselas ultimo de Mayo 1555." -- Parecer "Finalmente dize que no Sabe que en España se aya escrito cosa que se le pueda ygualar en esta materia de muy muchos años a esta parte. El doctor Iuan Paez de...
Ms. composite codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 25 ; also foliated as 218-230, 404-408, and 233-239 ; later foliation in pencil.
Layout: 35-59 long lines per page.
Description: Watermarks (fol. 1-13: hand with flower and "C. Pinette"; fol. 14-18: phoenix over a cross; fol. 19-25: cross inside tear-shape).
Origin: Draft of an essay on Homer Copied in Bruselas, ultimo de Mayo 1555.
In the library of Don Simon de la Serna de Santander as part of a larger miscellany. Sold from his family's collection to Antoine-Augustin Renouard, who sold it at auction in Paris in 1809. Thomas Thorpe sold it to Sir Thomas Phillipps. H.P. Kraus acquired it in 1978 as part of the Phillipps estate and disbound the original volume, offering its contents for sale separately. In 2001 the...

Keyword:

Watermarks

holographs (autographs)

Manuscripts, Spanish

Odyssey (Homer)

Zurita, Jerónimo, 1512-1580

New Jersey--Princeton

Spain

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/99115469783506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/a6ab877c-6652-45d3-be77-90161e5cfc27/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University