Anglerius, Peter Martyr (1455-1526)

  • Anglerius, Peter Martyr, 1455-1526
Date:
c.1855
Reference:
MS.8462
  • Archives and manuscripts

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Description

"The Work of the Letters of Peter Martyr of Angleria, a Milanese...to which are added the letters of Fernandez de Pulgar....": manuscript translation into English, by an unknown hand, of Petrus Martyr Anglerius, Opus epistolarum ... Cui accesserunt epistolæ Ferdinandi de Pulgar, Latinæ pariter atque Hispanicæ (in Latinum idioma conuersæ a J. Magon), cum tractatu Hispanico de viris Castellæ illustribus, edited by C. Patin, published by Elsevir, Amsterdam, 1670.

Publication/Creation

c.1855

Physical description

7 volumes and 1 loose-leaf binder Manuscript; the final loose-leaf binder also includes corrections to the text in another hand.

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Acquisition note

Purchased from F. Norman, July 1972.

Biographical note

Peter Martyr of Anghiera (in Italian, Pietro Martire D'anghiera; in Spanish Pedro Mártir De Anghiera, Latin, Petrus Martyr Anglerius or ab Angleria) (February 2, 1457-October 1526) was an Italian-born historian of Spain, particularly of its discoveries during the Age of Exploration.

He gave the first accounts of Spanish expeditions in Central and South America in letters and reports that were published, in Latin, during 1511-1530, grouped into sets of ten chapters called "Decades."

His De Orbe Novo (published posthumously in 1530) describes the first contacts of Europeans and native Americans.

The material translated here comprises his Opus epistolarum, also published posthumously in 1530, which is a collection of letters to or from ecclesiastical dignitaries, generals, and statesmen of Spain and Italy, dealing with contemporary events and particularly with the history of Spain during the years of exploration.

Finding aids

Original database description, subsequently expanded, was transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts,

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  • acc. 320620