YALE UNIVERSITY
BEINECKE RARE BOOK AND MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY
GENERAL COLLECTION OF RARE BOOKS AND
MANUSCRIPTS
MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE MANUSCRIPTS
Beinecke MS 569
Gonzales de Uruena, Juan. Delineacion de lo tocante al conocimiento del punto
de longitud del glovo de tierra y aqua, y de de la caussa de los crecientes y
menguanttes del mar. Spanish manuscript. Mexico, ca. 1720. Paper. ii + 116
ff. (200 x 150 mm.) 1 column, 14 lines. Spanish humanistic script. Diagrams
and tables of the tides. Bound in red contemporary patterned silk. Printed
arms of Felipe V pasted on flyleaf.
The composition of the volume is irregular. The normal gathering consists
of 20 folios, but additional folios are inserted in 3 places.
Comments: The volume is dedicated to Felipe V, King of Spain, by the author
who bears the title Contador de resultas en el real tribunal y audiencia de
quentas en Mexico y de las de la Armada de Barlovento.
Sir Thomas Phillipps Collection (21413 and 23219). Henry C. Taylor collection,
no. 14. Bequest of Henry C. Taylor, 1971.
Bibliography: J.S. Kebabian, The Henry C. Taylor Collection, (New Haven, 1971)
p. 3, no. 14.