Scope and Contents: Full Title: Grandes anales de quince dias [manuscript] : historia de muchos siglos que pasaron en un mes: memorias que guarda á los que vendran / D.Fran. de Quebedo y Villegas, caballero del orn. de Santiago á los s[e]ñ[or]es. principes, y reyes que subcederan, y á los que oy son en los afanes de este? mundo. Escritos en la Torre de Juan Abad año de 1628
"A political-satirical fantasy written immediately after Quevedo's patron, the Duke of Ossuna, fell from power, and the poet was exiled to his patrimonial estate of Torre de Juan Aban (1620)"--cf. bookseller desc.
Ms. codex.
Author's name and title from caption title on fol. 1r.
Binding: 19th century full marbled calf with gilted devices. -- Front cover device reads: "Forward Gang"; rear cover device reads: "Non mortale quod opto" (motto of Sir William Stirling-Maxwell). -- Binder stamp on front pastedown: "J. Leighton, Brewer St".
Origin: Location and date from bookseller description (in item folder): "Spain, end of 17th or beginning of 18th century."
Provenance: Acquired from Lathrop C. Harper, 6 April 1960. -- Bookplate of Sir William Stirling-Maxwell on front pastedown. -- Previously owned by Vincente Salva (cf. his A catalogue of Spanish and Portuguese books).
Shelfmark: Urbana, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Post-1650 MS 252.
Salv y Prez, Vicente. A catalogue of Spanish and Portuguese books. London, 1826.,
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