Some broadsides printed on blue paper.   All are scarce, most are rare.   20 of the 21 are not traced via Medina; and in the far more comprehensive Garritz bibliography, 13 of 21 are not found. The dates on the broadsides are: 1) 7 February 1811, 2) 23 February 1811, 3) 30 March 1811, 4) 10 April 1811, 5) 4 September 1811, 6) 30 January 1812, 7) 24 February 1812, 8) 28 February 1812, 9) 28 March 1812, 10) 21 November 1812, 11) 27 November 1812, 12) 7 January 1813, 13) 29 January 1813, 14) 8 February 1813, 15) 17 March 1813, 16) 30 April 1813, 17) 4 May 1813, 18) 5 May 1813, 19) 4 July 1813, 20) 13 July 1813, 21) 1 October 1813.

•  1) Not in Medina; Garritz 1249. 2) Not in Medina; Garritz 1257. 3) Not in Medina; not in Garritz. 4) Medina, Mexico, 10642; Garritz 1129. 5) Not in Medina; Garritz 1279. 6) Not in Medina; not in Garritz. 7) Not in Medina; Garritz 1600. 8) Not in Medina; not in Garritz. 9) Not in Medina; Garrtiz 1591. 10) Not in Medina; Garritz 1620. 11) Not in Medina; Garritz 1621. 12) Not in Medina; not in Garritz. 13) Not in Medina; not in Garritz. 14) Not in Medina; not in Garritz. 15) Not in Medina; not in Garritz. 16) Not in Medina; not in Garritz. 17) Not in Medina; not in Garritz. 18) Not in Medina; not in Garritz. 19) Not in Medina; not in Garritz. 20) Not in Medina; Garritz 1702. 21) Not in Medina; not in Garritz. All items obviously removed from bound volumes, and so, with irregular left margins. Most are folded to fit into a standard Spanish folio volume of the era. All are in very good condition.

Provenance:  On front free endpaper in 18th-century hands: “del uso de Sor Maria Coleta,” lined through; below which, “del uso de Sor M[ari]a Juan Nep[umacen]a.

The printer has supplied two charming initials, an “I” and a “C.”

•  Medina, Mexico, 9208.   Publisher's limp vellum with remnants of ties. Occasional light foxing. Ownership signatures as noted.  (23966)

The first edition appeared in Seville in 1491. In the 1555 Gregorio López issued his influential edition with commentary, which became the standard edition, reprinted several times in subsequent centuries. According to Palau, López "revisó y corregió escrupulosamente los manuscritos y textos anteriores, en los que el descuido de copistas e impresores había llegado a introducir variantes de importancia y a falsear el espiritú del legislador. De modo que esta edición [i.e., la primera] fue declarada como texto único auténtico y legal en la práctica del foro."

In the years following issuance of the 1555 edition, corruptions began to enter the text yet again, and in 1759 a further revision was ordered to bring the text back to its original wording and sense. This is only the second edition of that revision. Its printer was Monfort, one of Spain's best 18th-century practioners of the black art. The main title-page is printed in black and red, the text in clear and precise roman with some italic in double-column format; López's notes are laid in below the text. A fine engraved headpiece adorns the "Prólogo" in vol. I and a handsome woodcut headpiece of a ship under full sail on the open sea introduces each partida. Additionally there is a modest use of historiated initials.

•  Palau 7007 (Siete partidas) & 7008 (index). Contemporary mottled calf, round spines, raised bands, gilt spines extra. Minor abrasions on some covers. All edges carmine. Silk place markers. A very few instances of worming, holes filled by means of the 18th-century version of leafcasting (i.e., a paper slurry "painted" onto the paper to fill the opening): a few letters lost in some words, but sense not obscured. A very handsome set of a very important book.

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•  Removed from a nonce volume. Creased, with faint waterstaining to lower inner corner.

This bilingual edition is printed in two columns, the original Latin text of the Apostolic letter is on the left and a Spanish translation is on the right. This important item in Spanish and Vatican diplomatic history is rare. No copies were found on OCLC or RLIN, or in NUC Pre-1956.

•  Not in Palau. On Benedict XIV, see New Catholic Encyclopedia, II, 278. Removed from a nonce volume. Paper generally clean and crisp with a few spots of soiling.

This copy is notarized, i.e., authenticated, sealed, and signed, "In Madrid, a true copy, Manuel St. Martin, Apostolic notary." No copies were found on OCLC or RLIN, or in NUC Pre-1956.

•  Not in Palau. On Benedict XIII, see New Catholic Encyclopedia, II, 276-77. Removed from a nonce volume. Paper generally clean and crisp with but a few spots of soiling; closed tear from bottom margin into the last two lines of text, without loss of letters. Inked paraph on lower inner corners, and inked notation on upper outer corner of first page.

Uncommon.  OCLC and NUC Pre-1956 locate only three copies in the U.S.

•  Medina, Mexico, 8711.   Contemporary vellum over paste boards of printer's waste, vellum cockled and that of the front cover lightly rodent-gnawed at board edges. Worming in text, some of which is meander type, costing letters. Not a great copy, but given the scarcity, an acceptable one.  (24103)