The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 177

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9590

Shelfmark:

mssHM 177

Title:

Natural y General Hystoria de las Indias

Author:

Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo, 1478-1557

Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo, 1478-1557

Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés WIKIDATA

Artist:

Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo, 1478-1557

Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés WIKIDATA

Date:

1539-1548.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Spanish

Spanish WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: volumes 1: ff. 71; volumes 2: ff. 11-117 : paper ; 210 x 290 mm

Note:

A section of Vol. 2 of HM 177 was separated in 1975 and now constitutes HM 37542.
Watermark(s): 2 types of Main, similar to Briquet 10718 and 11244.
Decoration: Illustrated with 24 pen and ink drawings by the author, a few shaded in black lead.

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

marginalia (annotations)

illuminations (paintings)

Natural history

Discoveries in geography

Shipwrecks

Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo, 1478-1557

Indians of Central America

Spain

America

Indians of the West Indies

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1800280

IIIF Manifest:

https://hdl.huntington.org/iiif/p16003coll14:4107/manifest.json

https://hdl.huntington.org/iiif/p16003coll14:4331/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens