Spanish transcripts

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 12 MS Add.4174
  • Dates of Creation
      1650 (Circa)
  • Language of Material
      Spanish; Castilian , Latin , Greek, Ancient (to 1453) .
  • Physical Description
      1 volume(s) 1 volume

Scope and Content

Includes: (fo. 1) transcript of Libro de re militari traslado de Latin en romançe y declarado por Christoral de Estrella [J.C. Calvete de Estrella] (Salamanca, 1571); (fo. 147v) 'Remedio efficacissimo y provado para Quitar el Dolor de Muelas'; (fo. 148) Capital alpha kai capital omega [Greek script] (4 times); (fo. 149) transcript of La vida del bien aventurado Padre Frai Juan Hortolano fraile lego del Monasterio de S. Francisco de Salamanca (Salamanca, 1569), by Luis de Escobar; (fo. 170v) recipes, in Latin; (fo. 171v) alpha kai omega [Greek script]. Strips of a twelfth-century Latin manuscript on vellum have been used in the binding.

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Acquisition Information

Presented in 1905 by Mrs J.R. Jackson from the library of Norman Maccoll.

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