Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Spanish Language in the British Museum. Vol. 4

by Pascual de Gayangos; British Museum. Department of Manuscripts

“Derrotero de las Indias Occidentales, y compendio de todas sus costas de la parte de el Norte, yslas, bajos, sondas, puertos, anclajes, distancias, alturas, aguadas y señas (sic). Con algunas advertencias mui nesesarias (sic) á los Pilotos modernos. Por Benito Alonso Barrozo, capitan de mar y guerra por S. Mag^d. y de las maestranzas de la Armada de Barlovento; piloto examinado de la carrera de las Indias, y natural de la ciudad de Ayamonte.”

Apparently the original manuscript dedicated by its author to Don Manuel Luis de Guzman, Manrique de Zuñiga, Davila y Osorio, marquis de Ayamonte and Villamanrique, count of Lepe, marquis of Astorga, count of Trastamara and Santa Martha, duke of Aguiar, count of Colle (sic) and Villalobos, marquis of Velada and San Roman, &^a., the dedicatory epistle at fol. 2 being dated: “Ayamonte y Octubre 15 de 1689.” At the end of the work (fol. 123) is a table of contents.

Add. 9007. Paper, in folio, ff. 12, xviii. cent.

Original Documents left by [Don Antonio de] Cordova upon the summit of the “Mountain of the Cross” at port Gallant, in the Strait of Magalhanes, in the years 1786-89; also a copy of one previously left on the same spot by M^r. de Bougainville in 1767; found by Comm^r. Stokes of H.M.S. Beagle, March 1827, rolled up in a paper containing a small Spanish coin.

Begins with a letter from F. Beaufort, dated Admiralty Office, 23 May 1832, to Henry Ellis, Esq^re., at that time Principal Librarian of the British Museum, presenting the above documents. Then follow, at fol. 2, copy by the officers of the Santa Maria de la Cabeza in the year 1786, of a document left by M^r. de Bougainville, upon the “Mountain of the Cross.” f. 4. Part of the same document. f. 6. Document left by Don Antonio de Cordova on the “Mountain of the Cross,” at port Gallant, on his second visit in the Santa Casilda, 1789. f. 8. Part of the same document. f. 10. Transcript of Bougainville’s paper as far as it could be read. ff. 11, 12. Two more transcripts of the papers deposited by Cordova.

Add. 21,003. Paper, in folio, ff. 29, xviii. cent.

1. “Question sobre la Colonia del Sacramento;” a collection of papers in Portuguese, Latin and Spanish, with a few more on the Portuguese missions to China, &^a.

2. “Demonstracion convincente de la extension del Territorio en que está situada la Colonia del Sacramento;” with a small map of that colony. Beg.: ‘Establecida en la margen setentrional del Rio de la Plata.’ Imperfect f. 1-6

Add. 27,602. Paper, in folio, ff. 224, xix. cent.

Topographical and Scientific notes on Paraguay, collected by [Sir] William Gore Ouseley, containing:—