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- Y cuya relacion escrive D. Joseph de Villerias, bachiller en la Facultad de Leyes por la Real Vniversidad.
- An account of the memorial ceremonies held in Mexico City in honor of King Luis I (1707-1724), who died of smallpox just seven months after attaining the throne.
- Includes the first appearance of Greek in a Mexican book which appears as two lines of leaf 15 recto and on the half-page engraving on verso of leaf 143, 4th count.
- Includes an unnumbered plate with the coat of arms of Luis I bound following title page and a folded, engraved plate of a funerary monument bound to face leaf 32 recto; plates numbered I-XXXIV have a half-page engraving with some plates having lines of printed verse or a printed ornamental pattern below the half-page engraving; plates numbered I-XXXIV have been produces as plates and their stubs have been glued together to make a conjugate leaf to be bound within the gathered quires.
- Where plates numbered I-XXXIV have lines of verse below engraved "head-pieces" there are catchwords present on the facing leaf; for plates numbered I-XXXIV which have only printed ornaments below the engraved "head-pieces" the catchword present on the facing leaf refers not to the plate but to the text on the page of text next in sequence.
- Signatures: [par.]² ([par.]1 verso blank) 2[par.]² 3[par.]² chi1 A-2N⁴ (2E1, 2I1 versos blank)
- Errors in foliation: leaves 126 and 134, 4th count, misnumbered 226 and 135.
- Title page printed within ornamental border; engraved head and tail pieces; initials.
- "Parentalis declamatio in regio luctuosissimo funere Ludovici Ferdinandi pijssimi regis Hispani huiusce nominis primi: ante ortum, & post obitum in tenera aetate desiderati, quam in magnifico templo sanctissimae Ecclesiae Cathedralis Metropolitanae Mexiceae die xj. mensis Maij, anno MDCCXXV. Orabat lachrymis vberius, quam vocibus D.D. Carolus Bermudez de Castro, in regia Mexicea Academia in primaria sacrorum canonum cathedra jam rude donatus, tunc ejusdem ecclesiae doctoralis, & electus illustrissimus archiepiscopus sanctissimae ecclessiae metropolitanae Manilensis; jam denique, Deo auspice, consecratus, & à consilijs Catholicae regiae majestatis", leaves [109]-122, has divisional title and is composed entirely in Latin.
- "Sermon, que en las reales exeqvias del serenissimo, y potentissimo señor D. Luis Primero rey de las Españas, predicó el Illmo. y Rmo. Sr. Mtro. D. Fr. Joseph de Lanciego, y Eguilaz, monge del gran patriarca San Benito, arzopispo de la santa iglesia metropolitana de Mexico, predicador de S. M. y de su consejo. &c.", leaf [1] and leaves 125-137, 3rd and 4th counts, has divisional title page.
- "Jos. Villeriae Roëläei. in praematurum obitum serenissimi, ac potentissimi principis Ludovici I. Hispaniarvm regis elegia", leaves 139-143, consists of verse composed entirely in Latin.
- Digital version available on Internet Archive.
- Text primarily in Spanish with some sections and verse in Latin.
Table of Contents
- Parentalis declamatio in regio luctuosissimo funere Ludovici Ferdinandi pijssimi regis Hispani huiusce nominis primi:
- Sermon, que en las reales exeqvias del serenissimo, y potentissimo señor D. Luis Primero rey de las Españas:
Citation
"Llanto de las estrellas al ocaso del sol anochecido en el oriente:
Solemnes exequias, que a la augusta memoria del serenissimo, y potentissimo señor don Luis I. rey de las Españas, celebrò el Excmo. Sr. D. Juan de Acuña, marquès de Casa-Fuerte, cavallero del Orden de Santiago, y comendador de Adelfa en la de Alcantara, general de los reales exercitos, virrey governador, y capitan general de esta Nueva-España, y presidente de la Real Audiencia, &c. A cuya disposicion assistieron por comission de su Exc. los señores DD. D. Geronimo de Soria Velasquez, marquès de Villa-Hermosa de Alfaro, y D. Pedro Malo de Villavicencio, cavallero del abito de Calatrava, ambos del consejo de S.M. y sus oydores en esta Real Audiencia, &c
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(1725).
John Carter Brown Library.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:734103/
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