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[Papal bull], Bulla de la sancta crusada, Madrid, 1576-1586, 8 pamphlets in one volume, contemporary limp vellum
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[PAPAL BULL]. Bulla de la Sancta Crusada. Madrid, 1 September 1576 to 25 October 1583
Eight printed pamphlets of a form of Papal Indulgence, issued to Spain and its Catholic inhabitants and granting them certain privileges for their services in religious crusade. In the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, during what is often termed the Reconquest, the Bull held an elevated importance. From 1576, it was declared that it must be re-issued each year; this series comprises the first eight years of its annual publication.
Only the second, sixth, eighth and possibly third pamphlets are recorded in Iberian Books, and of these, no surviving copies of the of the third and sixth are known. Only the eighth features in Pérez Pastor, Bibliografía madrileña (Madrid 1891). One copy of the second pamphlet is found in the Real Academia de la Historia, Madrid (9/3682(47)) and one copy of the eighth is found in the Biblioteca Nacional Española, Madrid (R/5251(12)).
The pamphlets are as follows:
(1) Instruction dela orden que se ha de tener en la administracion, predicacion y cobranza de la Bulla de la sancta Cruzada, que se ha de predicar el año proximo venidero de M.D.LXXVII y en la Bulla de composicion que juntamente con ella se ha de predicar. Madrid, 1 September 1576
(2) Instruction de la orden que se ha de tener en la administracion, predicacion y cobrança de la Bulla de la santa Cruzada nuevamente concedida, que se ha de predicar el año proximo venidero de M.D.LXXVIIII. y en la Bula de Composicion que juntamente con ella se ha de predicar y publicar. Madrid, 25 September 1577
(3) Instruction dela orden que se ha de tener en la administracion, predicacion y cobrança de la Bula de la sancta Cruzada que su Sanctidad ha concedido: y se ha de predicar el año proximo venidero de M.D.LX XIX. Madrid, 20 September 1578
(4) Instrucion y orden que se ha de tener en la administracion, predicacion y cobranza de la Bula de la sancta Cruzada, que su Sanctidad a concedido: y se ha de predicar el año proximo venidero de MDLXXX. Madrid, 8 September 1579
(5) Instrucion y orden para la administracion, predicacion y cobrança de la Bula de la sancta Cruzada, que su Sanctidad tiene concedida: y se ha de predicar el año proximo venidero de MDLXXXI. Madrid, 5 October 1580
(6) Instrucion y orden para la administracion, predicacion y cobrança de la Bula de la sancta Cruzada, que su Sanctidad tiene concedida: y se ha de predicar el año proximo venidero de MDLXXXII. Iuntamente con la Bula de Composicion. Madrid, 22 October 1581
(7) Instrucion y orden para la administracion, predicacion y cobrança de la Bulla de la Sancta Cruzada, que su Sanctidad tiene concedida: y se ha de predicar el año proximo venidero de M.D.LXXXIII. Madrid, 20 October 1582
(8) Instrucion y orden para la administracion, predicacion y cobrança de la Bula de la santa Cruzada, que su Santidad ha concedido, y de nuevo prorrogado, y se ha de predicar el año proximo venidero de M.D.LXXXIIII. Madrid, 25 October 1583
Each has the counter-signature of Juanes de Larrumbide, subsequently one of the Contadores y escribanos de cámara (1598-1605); six are also signed by Pedro de Velarde y Villa, from 1576 Comisario general de Cruzada, and two by "El liçenciado Salazar" (Francisco de Soto Salazar, Comisario General de Cruzada from 1571).
8 pamphlets in one volume, folio (301 x 211 mm). Roman type with italic marginalia, 42 lines plus headline. collation: A10; A10; A10; A10; A10; A10; A10; A10: each document 10 leaves. Each with woodcut initials and paper seals (or remains thereof), countersigned by Joanes de Larrumbide. Woodcut arms to first pamphlet. (Some light browning and spotting throughout, worming to lower and occasionally inner margin, marginal dampstaining to final 2 pamphlets, some stains to outer margin of second pamphlet, paper flaw to outer margin of A2 of fourth pamphlet, ink stain affecting 1 letter to A1 of seventh pamphlet, tear to inner margin of final 2 leaves of eighth pamphlet, slightly affecting text.)
binding: Contemporary limp vellum (304 x 222 mm) with fore-edge flaps, remains of manuscript title on spine, remains of 2 pairs of ties, in a folding cloth box. (Binding somewhat creased and stained.)
provenance: H.P. Kraus, New York, Catalogue 176 (1986), item 212; Catalogue 191 (1993), item 7. acquisition: Purchased in 2001 from H.P. Kraus, New York. references: (1) Not in IB or Pérez Pastor; (2) IB 5368 (locating one institutional copy, RAH); not in Pérez Pastor (3) possibly IB 5375 (no known surviving copies); not in Pérez Pastor (4) Not in IB or Pérez Pastor; (5) Not in IB or Pérez Pastor; (6) IB 5381 (no known surviving copies); not in Pérez Pastor (7) Not in IB or Pérez Pastor; (8) IB 5385 (locating one institutional copy, BNE); Clemente San Román, Madrid 258; Pérez Pastor, Madrid 179
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