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Description
Derrotero written in Spain after 1570, the latest date given in the text (f. 46v); possibly composed after 1582 as Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alba is apparently referred to as no longer living (f. 81). It consists of a geographical description of the coasts of the world: Europe, Africa, southern and eastern Asia (including Japan and the East Indies), the Americas from the La Plata River to the Carribean, Peru, the east coast of North America to Labrador and Greenland, with descriptions of the inhabitants, customs, products and brief historical notices, especially for Europe and the Holy Lands. ff. 1-168v: [Derrotero]: Rubric: Derotero Del Mundo. Incipit: Pues bolviendo a la obra començada ... Explicit: cuya gracia sea en nuestro favor.
Type
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Date
[between 1590 and 1610]
Call number
mssHM 1788
Provenance
Purchased from Karl W. Hiersemann, February 1927. On f. 83, otherwise blank, contemporary pen trials including the names "Gonzalo de Faloxa[?]" and "Antonio"; other pen trials on f. 164v. On ff. 1 and 168v, ownership note and rubric (in the Spanish sense) of Don Vicente Antonio de Rendon C° Burgos; the added mention of Burgos to the text on f. 4 is probably attributable to this owner. Also on f. 1, a monogram of superimposed letters "A.R.O.T.E. (or L.)" and a note "Año de 76 [?]." Belonged to the Spanish writer, philologist and politician, Diego Clemencín, whose shelf mark on a slip of paper is pasted to the first flyleaf over an inked out inscription. On the front pastedown, a modern armorial bookplate, imitative of a late medieval woodcut, with the initials "A.G." and the motto "Que Quede Vida En La Muerte Velar Se Deve En La Vida De Tal Suerte."
Dimensions
222 x 284 mm
Associated people
Clemencín, Diego, (1765-1834,)
Associated organization
Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
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