Paleografias Española. Que Contiene Todos Los Modos Conocidos... (Spanish Paleography: Containing All Known Styles) First Edition
Esteban de Terreros y Pando. Paleografias Española. Que Contiene Todos Los Modos Conocidos... (Spanish Paleography: Containing All Known Styles). Madrid: Joachin Ibarra, 1758. First edition.
Octavo. [4], 160 pp. Illustrated, with eighteen engraved plates. Includes a folding facsimile letter from Isabel I of Castile to Gomez Manrique (1412-1490) while he was Corregidor of Toledo. The plates show Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew, Latin, and Greek text in a variety of calligraphic styles. Contemporary limp vellum with title in manuscript on spine. Contemporary limp vellum, spine lettered in manuscript. Text in Spanish.
First edition of this early work from Terreros y Pando, tracking Catholic, Muslim, and Jewish influence on the Spanish language, as well as influences of North African populations, the Roman Empire, and classical Greek society. Includes analyses of the way Castilian Spanish, Galician, Catalan, and other languages and dialects in Spain influenced each other and developed in tandem.
Rubbed and stained, with slight loss along upper edge of front board; manuscript paper label to spine head; front hinge broken, exposing spine, rear hinge starting; occasional light foxing throughout, slight dampstaining to upper corner; ink notation to front free endpaper. About very good.
Price: $1,500.00