Parentacion real al soberano nombre e immortal memoria del Catolico Rey de las Espanas y Emperador de las Indias el serenissimo senor don Carlos II

Creator

Bingham, Hiram Castro y Mena, Rodrigo de Portocarrero Lasso de la Vega, Melchor Barreda, L Rodríguez, José M Buendía, José de

Place

En Lima

Publisher

Por Ioseph de Contreras, impressor real, del Santo Oficio, y de la Santa Cruzada

Date

año de 1701

Notes

Includes poetry in Latin and Spanish by various authors (leaves 93 verso-188 [i.e., 168] [2nd count]); and with separate title page and signatures but unfoliated: Oracion funebre a las reales exequias del Rey nuestro señor don Carlos II, : que en la Santa Iglesia Cathedral de la Ciudad de los Reyes celebro el Excmo. senor conde de la Monclova, virrey, governador, y capitan general de los Reynos del Peru, Tierra-firme y Chile &c. / Dixola el Revermo. P.M. Fr. Rodrigo de Castro y Mena, predicador de su Magestad, calificador del Santo Oficio por la Suprema, y General Inquisicion, y vicario general de las Provincias del Peru, Chile &c. del Real Orden de Nuestra Señora de la Merced Redempcion de Cautivos ([29] leaves, at end)

Also includes copper plate engravings of the printer, José de Contreras y Alvarado on leaf [148] recto (2nd count) and of his press on leaf [148] verso, the only known colonial period depictions of a Peruvian printer and press. The engraver was the Dominican friar Miguel de Adame

Leaf 168 misnumbered 188

Signatures: pi² A-2R⁴ 2S-2T² 2V-2Z⁴ ²pi⁴ *²⁴ ²[A]⁴ ²B-²E⁴ ²F⁴ (-²F3) (pi1 verso blank)

Local notes

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary vellum. Lacks plate (folded) of catafalque that originally appeared between leaves 74 and 75 (2nd count); photograph thereof available in bib. file. Leaves 69-72 (2nd count) are duplicated. Worm eated; text affected. Right edge of leaves 62-74 (2nd count) trimmed excessively

Provenance of John Carter Brown Library copy: L[uis?] Barreda: inscription on frontispiece; Hiram Bingham: bookplate; Yale University Library: bookplate; José M. Rodríguez: bookplate