Decada primera de la historia de la insigne, y coronada ciudad y reyno de Valencia : dirigida a los tres estamentos, eclesiastico, militar, y real, y por ellos a los diputados : contiene esta decada curiosas generalidades de España, y la historia de Valencia hasta el rey don Pedro hijo del rey don Iayme el Conquistador : con una descripcion del reyno, historiada de varios sucessos, y relacion de los linages y personas eminentes que en el han florecido, y las guerras de las Comunidades, que llamaron Germania, Sierra de Espadan, y expulsion de los Moriscos / por el licenciado Gaspar Escolano.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Escolano, Gaspar, -1619.

Contributor:

Henry Charles Lea Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Valencia (Spain : Province)--History.

Valencia (Spain : Province).

Valencia (Spain : Region)--History.

Valencia (Spain : Region).

Physical Description:

2 volumes ; 29 cm (folio)

Fingerprint:

syt, u-6. e-ar stll (3) 1610 (A) v.1

ona- 2.2. anna asse (3) 1611 (A) v.2

Place of Publication:

Valencia : Por Pedro Patricio Mey, ... a costa de la diputacion, 1610-1611.

Notes:

Two numbered columns to the page.

Title of v. 2: "Segunda parte de la decada primera ..."

Escolano is said to have written two more volumes, which are supposed to have been destroyed. cf. V. Ximeno, Escritores del reyno de Valencia, t. 1, p. 282.

Errata on recto of leaf 2N6 of pt. 1, and recto of last leaf of pt. 2.

Local Notes:

Lea Library copy, both volumes, bound in full leather with five raised bands and title plate on spine; page edges stippled red.

Lea Library copy, both volumes, has the bookplate of Henry Charles Lea on front pastedown and his autograph, dated 1903, on front free end paper; unidentifiable purple stamp on title leaf (letters C, M, and P overlaid).

Lea Library copy, v.1, has a few ms. underlines and marginal notes throughout; v.2 has ms. notes in pencil on rear pastedown.

Lea Library copy, v.2, has tearing damage to leaf M5 with minor loss of text.

OCLC:

10186178