• Juan Páez de Castro

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Format:
  • Manuscript
  • Book
Date:
  • 1525-1575
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Call number:
  • Princeton MS. 174
Extent:
  • 1 volume (25 leaves) ; 32 cm
Type:
  • Manuscripts
  • Early works to 1800
Description:
  • Title from printed catalog.
  • Script: Humanística cancellaresca and Cursiva currens, in the hand of Juan Páez de Castro. Corrections and additions in the same hand.
  • Decoration: None.
Title sort:
  • Juan Páez de Castro.
Spatial:
  • Spain
  • New Jersey
Binding note:
  • The three disbound booklets constituting Princeton MS. 174 were bound by Scott Husby in the Preservation Office, Princeton University Library, 2001.
Provenance:
  • Princeton MS. 174 is comprised of three separate manuscripts removed by the New York antiquarian bookseller H.P. Kraus from a bound miscellany that had once been in the library of Don Simon de la Serna de Santander (d. 1791), a Spanish nobleman and royal councillor, who lived in Brussels. The London bookseller Thomas Thorpe (1791-1851) sold the bound miscellany to Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792- 1872), of Middle Hill, Worcestershire, as vol. 1 in a series of 15 volumes described as “Papeles espagnoles.” The manuscript became Phillipps 4135. The New York antiquarian bookseller H.P. Kraus acquired Phillipps 4135 in 1978, along with the remainder of the Phillipps estate. Later, H. P. Kraus disbound the original volume and offered its contents for sale separately by text. In 2001 the Princeton University Library acquired the three texts now constituting Princeton Ms. 174, as well as two others from this volume (Princeton MSS. 138.42 and 138.43).
Former owner:
  • Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872
Created:
  • 1525-01-01T00:00:00Z/1575-12-31T23:59:59Z
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/jq085r365
Location:
  • HSVM Princeton MS. 174
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
Range label:
  • Logical
Uniform title:
  • Essays. Selections (Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Princeton MS. 174)
References:
  • Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, pages 444-446.
Creator:
  • Páez de Castro, Juan, active 16th century
Author:
  • Páez de Castro, Juan, active 16th century
Contents:
  • 1.1r-13r: “En esta translacio que de la Ulyxea de Homero hize, Sacratissimo, y muy grande Rey Principe, y Señor nuestro, he visto claramente ser verdad lo que Aristoteles dize que los poetas mas que otro genero de escritores aman sus composiciones y trobas ...” Explicit: “... donde no estare con temor de offender con prolixidad como agora.”
  • 2.14r-18v: “Gran merced recebi en que vuestra merced me diese parte desta labor tanbien trabajada antes que se publicase entera con los XIII libros que faltaban ...” Explicit: “... y a los Señores M.S. de Prioli, y Donato Rullo. De Bruselas ultimo de Mayo 1555.”
  • 3.19r-25r: “Muy alto y muy poderoso Señor. El doctor Juan Paez de Castro Coronista y capellan de Vuestro Altissimo dize que por mandado de Vuestro Altissimo, ha uisto las annotaciones que se escriuieron contra los Anales del Reyno de Aragon que Geronimo Çurita Contador General del Sancto Officio de la Inquisicion de aquel Reyno publico los dias passados, y cierto son indignas de hauerse presentado en tan alto tribunal ...” Explicit: “Finalmente dize que no Sabe que en España se aya escrito cosa que se le pueda ygualar en esta materia de muy muchos años a esta parte. El doctor Iuan Paez de Castro.”
Bookseller:
  • H.P. Kraus (Firm)
Publisher:
  • [Spain] : [Juan Páez de Castro], [between 1525 and 1575]
Contributor:
  • Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Princeton MS. 174