Copilación de la batallas.

Accession number: 
PML 34635
Author: 
Rodríguez de Almela, Diego, approximately 1426-approximately 1489.
Published: 
Murcia : Lope de la Roca, 28 May 1487.
Description: 
[56] leaves ; 28 cm. (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1938.
Notes: 

Title and imprint from colophon (leaf g6v): "A gloria [et] alabanca de n[ost]ro saluador y redemptor ih[es]u [Christ]o. fue este libro que es llamado el tractado delas batallas ca[m]pales acabado con otros dos tractados enla muy noble [et] lead cibdad [sic] de murcia por manos de maestre. Lope d[e]la roca aleman. Impressor de libros lunes a. xxviii. Dias d[e] mayo año de mil [et] .cccc.lxxxvii años. DEO GRACIAS."
Printed in de la Roca's type 1:130G.
Collation: a¹⁰ b-f⁸ g⁶: 56 leaves, leaf [a1] blank.
Variant collations in Hain-Reichling 5571, Haebler (BI) 580, and BMC X 72.
Signatures begin with "ai" and leaf a2.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.4 x 20.8 cm.

Binding: 
17th-century Spanish sprinkled brown calf over pastepaper boards (28.2 x 21.6 cm), with gilt armorial of Caracena; rebacked. Plain paper pastedowns.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations of people cited in battle descriptions. Inscriptions and drawings on leaf [a1]r (some abraded and faded), including: "Porsio maestro Miguel de Qunbiar(?) doze capitulos de Santos," "Joarmens(?) Para," and another in same hand, scratched out.

Provenance: 
Miguel de Qunbiar, inscriptions (leaf [a1]r); Luis de Benavides Carrillo, Marqués de Caracena (1608-1668), Governor of the Spanish Netherlands, gilt armorial binding; Maggs Bros., Bibliotheca Incunabulorum, cat. 656, 1938, lot 404; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Maggs Bros., February 1938.
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