Shelfmark
MS 164
Title
Anatomie of Spayne [composed ... onge by ... An[n]o] 1598. Translated into Englishe by Harye Bedwod gent. manuscript.
Publication, distribution, etc.
England, 1599.
Physical description
1 volume ([2], 348 [1] pages, [1] folded sheet) : paper ; 25 x 19 cm.
Note
A history of Spain and the Hapsburg dominions.
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Title taken from title-page.
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Date of production taken from the title-page.
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Title partly obscured with ink, so that the author's name cannot be read.
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Title within coloured border decorated with the arms of Spain and its principalities. Each has a caption: Tiranie, murther, bastardie, feare, suspicion, usurpacion, hipochresie, periurie.
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Coloured genealogical trees with armorial devices throughout. One is on a large sheet folded and bound in.
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Final page bears a coloured image of a peacock standing on a pomegranate, with coats of arms in its feathers.
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Page numbers in black ink.
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Pages ruled with red margins. Written in secretary hand with some marginal annotations in italic hand.
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Engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College Library on verso of front flyleaf. This manuscript does not appear in Bernard's Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum of 1697, suggesting it entered the Library after that date.
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Donation inscription on verso of title-page: Dedit Collegio Etonensi Franciscus Goode A.M. 1731. Francis Goode was assistant master at Eton, 1700-1716.
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Previous shelfmarks: Bl.6.19, Bl.7.22.
Citation/references note
M.R. James, 164
Binding
18th century mid brown calf; blind tooled double fillet and wheel roll border; late 20th or 21st century spine of mid brown calf; blind tooled bead roll and gold tooled double fillet on spine, with blind tooled decoration in each compartment and gold tooled title; five raised bands; gilt edges.
Subject
Spain History Early works to 1800.
Subject
Spain Politics and government Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Bedwod, Harye translater.
Added entry--name
Goode, Francis. donor.
Added entry--place
England
Identifier
B46557