Aragon - Lot 302

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Aragon - Lot 302
Aragon ZURITA (Jerónimo) Indices Rerum ab Aragonia Regibus gestarum ab initiis Regni ad annum MCDX…[Index of the Deeds and Actions of the Kings of Aragon from the Beginning of the Kingdom to the Year MCDX]. Caesaraugustae [Zaragoza], Dominicis a Portonariis de Ursinis, 1578. In-4: 4f., 407pp., 3pp., 1f. (large printer’s mark; Dominicus Portonariis) – 155 pp., (1). Brown marbled imitation sheepskin, smooth spine with decoration, gilt fillet with fleurons in spandrels framing the covers, original central coat of arms of Léonor d’Estampes de Valençay repositioned. First edition. A very rare and highly prized volume divided into two parts. The first part contains an abridgment of Zurita’s annals, translated by him into Latin; the second part recounts the history of the Norman princes’ conquest of Sicily (Brunet II, 445). Jerónimo Zurita was a famous Spanish historian born in Zaragoza; he traveled to Germany to carry out various diplomatic missions. Upon his return to Spain in 1549, he was appointed official historian of the province of Aragon and retired at the end of his life to the Hieronymite monastery in Zaragoza. Provenance: Abbatial seal of Léonor d’Estampes de Valençay, a cleric at the episcopal see of Chartres and later Archbishop of Reims (1641)—repositioned within a fully restored binding, or merely for decorative purposes?!
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