Collection Items
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Book/Printed MaterialSpain. "Authorities" : p. 50.- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
- Date: 1920-01-01
- Resource: - 64 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialSpanish Morocco. Appendix (p. [34]-36) includes extracts from treaties &c. relating to Spanish Morocco. "Authorities": p. [40]-42.- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
- Date: 1920-01-01
- Resource: - 58 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialSpanish Sahara. "Appendix" (p. [32]-33): Conventions between France and Spain, June 27, 1900; November 27, 1912. "Authorities": p. [34]-35.- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
- Date: 1920-01-01
- Resource: - 50 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialDescripción geográfica y gobierno, administración y colonización de las colonias españolas del golfo de Guinea Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. digital files not viewed; td12 2008-10-29- Contributor: Navarro Y Beltran Del Rio, Eduardo - Ramos Izquierdo Y Vivar, Luis
- Date: 1912-01-01
- Resource: - 428 pages
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Map[La Coruña. El Ferrol, Spain] "This English manuscript double chart, in pen and water colors, on vellum, shows the harbors of La Coruña and El Ferrol in Spain. The date, localities depicted, and provenance of the charts indicate that they were prepared for use in the Drake-Norris expedition of 1589. After the Spanish Armada was defeated in 1588 by the English fleet and failed in its attempt to invade…- Contributor: Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1589
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PeriodicalIl Tiberio.
Tiberio, Núm. 1, 15 Noviembre 1896 Il Tiberio was a manuscript magazine produced in Barcelona at the end of the 19th century. It contained articles, reviews of artistic and other cultural and political matters, and original drawings. Contributors included such writers and artists as Marià Pidelaserra, Gaietà Cornet, Ramon and Juli Borrell, Emili Fontbona, Filibert Montagut, Josep Victor Solà Andreu, Joan Comellas i Viñals, and Ramon Riera Moliner. They were…- Contributor: Borrell I Pla, Ramon - Fontbona, Emili - Cornet I Palau, Gaietà - Comellas I Viñals, Joan - Borrell I Pla, Juli - Pide - Montagut, Filibert
- Date: 1896-01-01
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PeriodicalLa Donsayna. La Donsayna was a Valencian satirical newspaper published in Madrid in the 1840s by Josep Bernat y Baldoví, who was also its editor, publisher, and main contributor. At the time, Bernat y Baldoví was a member of the Cortes Generales (General Courts), the Spanish legislature. Other collaborators were Josep Maria Bonilla and Pascual Pérez y Rodríguez. The publication reflects the atmosphere of an era…- Contributor: Bonilla, José María - Bernat I Baldoví, Josep - Pérez Y Rodríguez, Pascual
- Date: 1844-01-01
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PeriodicalLa Renaxensa. La Renaixensa was the first periodical written entirely in Catalan since 1714, when King Philip V of Spain banned the language. La Renaixensa (La Renaxensa between 1871 and 1876) takes its name from the movement that was born at the end of 18th century and early in the 19th with the cautious writing of some works in Catalan. The magazine was founded in 1871…- Contributor: Aldavert I Martorell, Pere - Matheu, Francesc
- Date: 1871-01-01
- Resource: - 16 pages
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PeriodicalL'Atlàntida.
Atlantis L'Atlàntida (Atlantis) is a literary magazine in Catalan. It began publishing almost 20 years after the appearance of the great Catalan epic poem of the same name by Jacint Verdaguer, who won special honors at the Jocs Florals for the work and by it consolidated La Renaixença, the Catalan renaissance of the 19th century. The magazine reflects the evolution from Renaixença to Modernism. Between…- Contributor: Bosch De La Trinxeria, Carles - Condó I Sambeat, Josep - Folch I Torres, Manel - Llimoner, A., 187 - Aliberch Y Tort, Joan - Aladern, Joseph
- Date: 1896-01-01
- Resource: - 16 pages
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PeriodicalLuz.
Luz, año 1, no. 1, 15 nov. 1897 The literary and art magazine Luz (Light), published in 18 issues between mid-November 1897 and late December 1898, expressed the innovative force of the modernists, mainly in its graphic design. It was a slim and refined publication, in a long format (365mm x 155mm) that clearly showed the wish for change with respect to inherited culture. It was the first magazine of the modernist…- Contributor: Roviralta, Josep M. - Regoyos, Darío De
- Date: 1897-01-01
- Resource: - 12 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Dove's Neck-Ring. Abu Muhammad Ali ibn Ahmad ibn Said ibn Hazm (994--1064 AD; 384--456 AH) was a renowned Andalusian poet and religious scholar from Cordoba. He was born into an eminent family and, after receiving a distinguished and wide-ranging education, served the Umayyad caliphate in its decline. His political activities led to his imprisonment and banishment, and he wrote Tawq al-hamamah (The dove's neck-ring) while in…- Contributor: Ibn Ḥazm, ʻalī Ibn Aḥmad, 994
- Date: 1900-01-01
- Resource: - 183 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Philosophy of ibn Tufail and His Treatise the Self-Taught Philosopher. Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Tufail (also known by a Latinized version of his name, Abubacer Aben Tofail, 1105--85 AD) was an Andalusian Muslim polymath who was born near Granada, Spain, and died in Morocco. Apart from fragments of poetry, Hayy ibn Yaqzan (Alive, son of awake), also called Philosophus Autodidactus (The self-taught philosopher), is his only surviving work. Considered the first philosophical novel, it…- Contributor: Maḥmūd, ʻabd Al-Ḥalīm - Ibn Ṭufayl, Muḥammad Ibn ʻabd Al-Malik
- Date: 1900-01-01
- Resource: - 133 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Breath of Perfume. Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Maqqari (circa 1578--1632) was an Arab historian who wrote one of the oldest histories of Muslim Spain. He was born in Tlemcen, in present-day Algeria, and at times lived and worked in Morocco and in Egypt. His most important work, Nafḥ aṭ-ṭīb (The breath of perfume), consists of two parts. The first is a compilation from many authors on Andalusia and…- Contributor: Maqqarī, Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad, 1631
- Date: 1855-01-01
- Resource: - 1084 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Book of Medicinal and Nutritional Terms. Abu Muhammad Abdallah Ibn Ahmad Ibn al-Baitar Dhiya al-Din al-Malaqi (known as Ibn al-Baitar, circa 1197--1248 AD) was an Andalusian Arab scientist, botanist, pharmacist, and physician. He was born in Malaga, Spain, and died in Damascus, Syria. He is considered one of the major scientists of Muslim Spain. His father was a veterinarian, which earned him the nickname al-Baitar, Arabic for veterinarian. Ibn al-Baitar…- Contributor: Ibn Al-Bayṭār, ʻabd Allāh Ibn Aḥmad, 1248
- Date: 1800-01-01
- Resource: - 172 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialBook on the Soul. Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn al-Sayigh, better known as Ibn Bajjah or by his Latinized name, Avempace (circa 1095--1138 AD), was an Andalusian Muslim polymath, who was born in Zaragoza, Spain, and died in Fes, Morocco. He was also a politician and served as a vizier (minister) for the Almoravids, the Islamic rulers of southern Spain and North Africa circa 1062--1150. Ibn Bajjah…- Contributor: Avempace, 1138 - Maʻṣūmī, M. Ṣaghīr Ḥasan (Muḥammad Ṣaghīr Ḥasan)
- Date: 1960-01-01
- Resource: - 155 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Method of Medicine. Abu al-Qasim Khalaf ibn al-Abbas Al-Zahrawi (also known by his Latinized name Albucasis, circa 936--1013 AD) was an Andalusian Muslim surgeon, who was born in El Zahra (known today as Medina Azahara), near Cordoba, Spain. He is considered by some to be the father of modern surgery and is best known for his medical encyclopedia Al-tasreef liman ajiza an al-taaleef (The method of medicine).…- Contributor: Abū Al-Qāsim Khalaf Ibn ʻabbās Al-Zahrāwī, 1013
- Date: 1908-01-01
- Resource: - 253 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialLamp of Kings. Sirāj al-mulūk (Lamp of kings) is by Muḥammad ibn al-Walīd al-Ṭurṭūshī, a Maliki imam also known as Ibn Abū Zandaqa. Al-Ṭarṭūshī was born in Tortosa in Catalonia (in what was then al-Andalus, present-day Spain) in 1059 or 1060. He died in Alexandria, Egypt in 1126 or 1127. The topic of the Sirāj al-mulūk, his most famous work, is political theory. The present edition was…- Contributor: Ghazzālī - Urṭūshī, Muḥammad Ibn Al-Walīd 1059127
- Date: 1888-01-01
- Resource: - 93 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialTreatment for the Spirit, Refinement of Manners, and Renunciation of Vice. Mudawat al-nafus wa tahdhib al-akhlaq wa al-zuhd fi-al-radha'il (Treatment for the spirit, refinement of manners, and renunciation of vice) is a collection of essays on various philosophical and ethical points by the famous Muslim thinker Ibn Hazm of Andalusia (994-1064). The author portrays the ethical life as the highest attainment of the learned man, and his personal reflections appear to be the distillation of…- Contributor: Ibn Ḥazm, ʻalī Ibn Aḥmad, 994
- Date: 1905-01-01
- Resource: - 45 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Night Riders. Gece yolcuları (The night riders) is a translation into Ottoman Turkish of a French novel entitled Les Cavaliers de la nuit by the prolific French writer Ponson du Terrail. It is the tale of four heroes hailing from different parts of Europe--Scotland, Lorraine, Naples, and Spain--who joined forces in the cause of a deposed king of Brittany. The novel is representative of Gothic romances…- Contributor: Ponson Du Terrail
- Date: 1873-01-01
- Resource: - 556 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha In 1829, the Spanish scholar and bibliographer Vicente Salvá determined that this book was the true editio princeps (first printed edition) of the first volume of El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The ingenious gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha). Until then, it had been considered a second edition, printed in the same year. Encouraged by the success of other fictional works,…- Contributor: Robles, Francisco De, Died 1616 - Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel De
- Date: 1605-01-01
- Resource: - 664 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialAmadis of Gaul.
Los qtro libros de Amadis de gaula nueuamete imprsos [et] hystoriados e Seuilla Amadís de Gaula (Amadis of Gaul) is a famous prose romance of chivalry, first composed in Spain or Portugal and most likely based on French sources. An early version of the work probably existed by the late 13th century or early 14th century. A version in three books, of which brief fragments are extant, can be dated around 1420. Garci Rodriguez de Montalvo, ruler…- Contributor: Rodríguez De Montalvo, Garci, Flourished 1500
- Date: 1531-01-01
- Resource: - 588 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialLife and Deeds of the Cunning Rogue Guzman de Alfarache.
Vida y hechos del picaro Guzman de Alfarache Vida y hechos del picaro Guzman de Alfarache (The life and deeds of the cunning rogue Guzman de Alfarache) is an important early example of the picareseque novel, a fictional genre that developed in Spain and that takes its name from picaro, a Spanish word meaning rogue or rascal. Written more as a moralizing discourse than for amusement, Guzman de Alfarache offers all of…- Contributor: Alemán, Mateo - Bouttats, Gaspard, Born 1640 - Lamorlet, Joseph, Died 1680 - Bouttats, Frederik
- Date: 1681-01-01
- Resource: - 411 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialBook on Geometry, Practice, and Patterns.
Libro de geometria, practica y traça This landscape-shaped printed work is the first treatise on tailoring published in Spain. It paved the way for other such works in the late 16th century and early 17th century. The author was Juan de Alcega, born in Guipuzcoa, in the Basque region of northern Spain, and a tailor by trade. In his dedication, to a theologian called Tejada, he describes "this, my small…- Contributor: Alcega, Joan De, Flourished 1580
- Date: 1580-01-01
- Resource: - 190 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialBook of Simplification Concerning Therapeutics and Diet.
Liber Teisir, sive, Rectificatio medicationis et regiminis Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik Ibn Zuhr (also known by the Latinized version of his name, Avenzoar, circa 1090--1162), was the leading medical doctor in Islamic Spain. A native of Seville, he studied medicine under his father, and later went into the service of the Almoravids and Almohads. He was a friend and near contemporary of the great Arabic physician Ibn Rushd, or Averroes (1126--98).…- Contributor: Ibn Zuhr, ʻabd Al-Malik Ibn Abī Al-ʻalāʾ, 1162 - Surianus, Hieronymus, 1522 - Averröes
- Date: 1497-01-01
- Resource: - 214 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialComplete Book on the Judgment of the Stars.
De Judiciis Astrorum Abu al-Hassan Ali Ibn Ali Ibn Abi al-Rijal (also known as Haly or Hali, and by the Latinized versions of his name, Haly Albohazen and Haly Abenragel) was a late 10th-century--early 11th century Arab astrologer and astronomer who served as court astrologer in the palace of the Tunisian prince, al-Muizz Ibn Badis. His best known treatise, Kitāb al-bāri' fi ahkām an-nujūm (Complete book on…- Contributor: Ibn Abī Al-Rijāl, ʻalī,6
- Date: 1485-01-01
- Resource: - 163 pages