Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Grandezas y excelencias de la Virgen señora nuestra / compuestas en otaua rima por F. Pedro de Padilla, Carmelita. Dirigidas a la serenissima Infanta Margarita de Austria, professa en el monesterio de la Madre de Dios de Consolacion, en las Descalc̜as de Madrid.

Accession number
PML 199073
Creator
Padilla, Pedro de.
Published
En Madrid : Por P. Madrigal, 1587.
Credit line
Purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper D-1 Fund, 2023.
Notes
Signatures: [cross]⁸ A-V⁸
Armorial of Carmelite order on title page and leaf 18v, below image of Virgin Mary (Immaculate Conception).
Sonnet by Miguel de Cervantes on leaf [cross]5v.
Description
[8], 154, [6] leaves ; 15 cm (8vo)
Provenance
Unidentified Spanish dealer catalogue description, no. 630 (front pastedown); F. Fasting, bookplate (front endleaf 1 recto); Sotheby-Parke Bernet, unidentified auction, 1980; Kenneth Rapoport, booklabel (front endleaf 1 recto), purchased from Bernard Quaritch, cat. 1025 (1982), no. 34 in May 1984 for $1767; Morgan Library & Museum, purchased from HS Rare Books on the Lathrop C. Harper D-1 Fund, Dec. 2023.
Binding
19th-century Spanish polished calf, with gilt Annunciation emblem on front board (with overlapping initials AM at bottom) and fleur de lis on rear board.
Classification
Department