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ORTIZ, Alonso (1455-1503). Cinco tratados. Seville: Compañeros alemanes (Johann Pegnitzer, Magnus Herbst and Thomas Glockner), 1493.
Chancery 2° (299 x 205mm). Collation: a-e8 f10 g-k8 l-n6 (a1r title, verso blank, a2r-f tracts I-IV, g1r blank, g1v tract V, n6v colophon). 100 leaves. Incipit printed in red, printer’s device below colophon, woodcut ornamental initials. 42 lines, single and double column. Type: 1:165(155)G, 5:98G. (Faint dampstain at extreme upper margin in 4 leaves, 2 minor marginal tears.) 19th-century black morocco-backed boards gilt, spine lettered in gilt, red edges (very minor rubbing at extremities). Provenance: very occasional early marginal annotation -- Pedro José Pidal y Carniado, Marqués de Pidal (1799-1865; then by descent to his grandson Roque Pidal y Bernaldo de Quiros, 1885-1960; 3 successive bookplates); 19th-century notes on the texts tipped in or loosely inserted.
FIRST EDITION OF A RARE WORK OF EUROPEAN-AMERICANA, CONTAINING ONE OF THE EARLIEST ALLUSIONS TO THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA. In an address to Ferdinand and Isabella after the conquest of Granada in 1492, Ortiz proclaims their greatness heralded around the world, ‘even in the distant Indies’ (f.40r [Latin] and 43v [Spanish]). Ortiz delivered the oration in December 1492, just weeks before Christopher Columbus’s return and report of his discovery of the New World. By the time the present edition was printed in 1493, only 2 other printed references had appeared in Spain, the exceedingly rare Barcelona and Valladolid editions of the Columbus letter.
Ortiz was a Spanish humanist, canon of the Cathedral of Toledo, and chaplain at the royal court. The other tracts contained here concern a near-fatal assassination attempt on Ferdinand by a madman at Barcelona in December 1492; a consolation for the recently widowed Isabella of Portugal, eldest daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella; letters defending the pre-eminence of Toledo over Granada; and a reply in a long-running debate with Juan Ramirez de Lucena ostensibly about heretical teachings but as much a battle for position in royal favour, a battle Ortiz ultimately won.
After a 3-year hiatus of printing activity at Seville, a partnership of four Germans established a press there at the order of Queen Isabella in 1490. One member of the partnership, Paul of Cologne, withdrew or died in 1493 and the present edition is the first issued by the smaller partnership and with a redesigned device. IN FINE CONDITION AND RARE ON THE MARKET, with no copy recorded at auction in over 75 years; not in the Bavarian State Library. H 12109; BMC X 35; CIBN O-66; IBE 4225; Haebler(BI) 503; Harrisse(BAV) 10; Palau 205584; Sabin 57714; Salva 2365; Goff O-106.
Chancery 2° (299 x 205mm). Collation: a-e8 f10 g-k8 l-n6 (a1r title, verso blank, a2r-f tracts I-IV, g1r blank, g1v tract V, n6v colophon). 100 leaves. Incipit printed in red, printer’s device below colophon, woodcut ornamental initials. 42 lines, single and double column. Type: 1:165(155)G, 5:98G. (Faint dampstain at extreme upper margin in 4 leaves, 2 minor marginal tears.) 19th-century black morocco-backed boards gilt, spine lettered in gilt, red edges (very minor rubbing at extremities). Provenance: very occasional early marginal annotation -- Pedro José Pidal y Carniado, Marqués de Pidal (1799-1865; then by descent to his grandson Roque Pidal y Bernaldo de Quiros, 1885-1960; 3 successive bookplates); 19th-century notes on the texts tipped in or loosely inserted.
FIRST EDITION OF A RARE WORK OF EUROPEAN-AMERICANA, CONTAINING ONE OF THE EARLIEST ALLUSIONS TO THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA. In an address to Ferdinand and Isabella after the conquest of Granada in 1492, Ortiz proclaims their greatness heralded around the world, ‘even in the distant Indies’ (f.40r [Latin] and 43v [Spanish]). Ortiz delivered the oration in December 1492, just weeks before Christopher Columbus’s return and report of his discovery of the New World. By the time the present edition was printed in 1493, only 2 other printed references had appeared in Spain, the exceedingly rare Barcelona and Valladolid editions of the Columbus letter.
Ortiz was a Spanish humanist, canon of the Cathedral of Toledo, and chaplain at the royal court. The other tracts contained here concern a near-fatal assassination attempt on Ferdinand by a madman at Barcelona in December 1492; a consolation for the recently widowed Isabella of Portugal, eldest daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella; letters defending the pre-eminence of Toledo over Granada; and a reply in a long-running debate with Juan Ramirez de Lucena ostensibly about heretical teachings but as much a battle for position in royal favour, a battle Ortiz ultimately won.
After a 3-year hiatus of printing activity at Seville, a partnership of four Germans established a press there at the order of Queen Isabella in 1490. One member of the partnership, Paul of Cologne, withdrew or died in 1493 and the present edition is the first issued by the smaller partnership and with a redesigned device. IN FINE CONDITION AND RARE ON THE MARKET, with no copy recorded at auction in over 75 years; not in the Bavarian State Library. H 12109; BMC X 35; CIBN O-66; IBE 4225; Haebler(BI) 503; Harrisse(BAV) 10; Palau 205584; Sabin 57714; Salva 2365; Goff O-106.
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