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Defensa de España, contra las calumnias de Francia : Satisfaccion à los Engaños de su Manifiesto, Motivo de los Intentos del Rey Christianissimo, Verdad de los Designios del Rey Catholico. En las Alteraciones de Europa.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Codex 175
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- History.
- Europe--History--17th century.
- Europe.
- Europe--History--1517-1648.
- Spain--History--17th century.
- Spain.
- Spain--History--Philip IV, 1621-1665.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- Manuscripts, Spanish.
- Manuscripts, European.
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by Antonio Manuel Paxiente (note, f. i recto); inside upper cover has a label with a description of the manuscript, in French, from an unidentified dealer.
- Physical Description:
- 144 leaves : paper ; 201 x 143 (169 x 100) mm bound to 205 x 147 mm
- Production:
- [Venice], 1635.
- Language Note:
- Spanish.
- Summary:
- Treatise defending the political and religious activities of Spain against criticism. Dedicated to Pope Urban VIII (f. 1r).
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (f. 1r) and caption title (f. 14r).
- Spine title: Defenza de Espana contra las calumnias de Francia.
- Title in Zacour-Hirsch: Defensa de España contra las calumnitates de Francia.
- Foliation: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 144 + i (contemporary paper); [i], [1-143]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
- Script: Written in a cursive script.
- Binding: Contemporary calf. Spine title in gold on red spine label. Marbled endpapers. Cover worn, especially at hinges and edges; leather scratched, worn and slightly crumbling. Cover boards slightly warped. Front endleaf almost completely detached.
- Origin: Written in Venice, 1635 (f. 1r: "En Venecia. Año de MDCXXXV"). Dedication (f. 5v): Madrid, 28 October 1635.
- Cited in:
- Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 139 (Ms. Spanish 17).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 175
- Contains:
- Defenza de Espana contra las calumnias de Francia.
- Defensa de España contra las calumnitates de Francia.
- OCLC:
- 155962766
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