Spanish Manuscripts

Date range: 16th-19th centuries

Medium: Manuscript

Number of items: 29 items

This small collection of Spanish Manuscripts comprises historical, genealogical and philological works. They include:

• an important 16th-century collection of texts of well-known Spanish chronicles (Spanish MS 1);
• a collection of the historical writings of Esteban de Garibay y Zamalloa, royal historiographer to Philip II (Spanish MSS 9-25);
• a richly-decorated early 17th-century record of a lawsuit to prove gentlemanly rank (Spanish MS 27).

See also:

• The Latin Manuscripts include a number of significant items from Spain, including Visigothic manuscripts

Further information:

Published catalogue: M. Tyson, ‘The Spanish Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library’, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, vol. 16 (1932), pp. 188-99. PDF version available online via Manchester Digital Collections.

Location:

• The John Rylands Library, Deansgate  [Map]
• Find out how to use the reading rooms in the John Rylands Research Institute and Library