Compendio geografico y breve descrcion del mundo : Dase Noticia De las partes, que le Componen, De sus principales Reynos, y Probincias , con Algunes Noticias Historicas, y un Resumen del Descubrimiento, y Conquistas de America / escribíalo Dn. Bernardo Pablo de Estrada, y Naba.
- Format/Description:
- Manuscript
142 leaves : paper ; 204 x 153 (185 x 112) mm bound to 214 x 157 mm - Production:
- [Spain], 1784.
- Online:
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3gq6r35q - Status/Location:
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- Subjects:
- Geography -- Early works to 1800.
Geography.
America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish.
America.
Discoveries in geography.
Spain -- History.
Spain.
History. - Form/Genre:
- Codices.
Manuscripts, Spanish.
Manuscripts, European. - Language:
- Spanish.
- Biography/History:
- Estrada y Naba (or Nava) was "comisario ordenador de los reales exercitos, intendente de la Probincia de Valladolid, y corregidor de su capital" (f. 2r). He does not appear in Palau y Dulcet.
- Summary:
- Manual of world geography, in the form of questions and answers. Folios 1, 139-140 are blank.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (f. 2r).
Spine title worn and hard to read.
Foliation: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 142; [i], 1-138, [iii]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script.
Binding: Contemporary parchment. Cover pulling away from book block at inside lower hinge. Stains on cover.
Origin: Written in Spain, 1784 (f. 2r). - Penn Provenance:
- Purchased, 1950.
- 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. 145 (Ms. Spanish 49).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 185
- OCLC:
- 155962737