The volume seems to have been dedicated to Doña Francisca de Aragon, daughter of the third duke of Villahermosa (D. Fernando), who in 1590 (?) fled from a nunnery, and took refuge in Portugal.
SECT. X.—ARTS AND SCIENCES.
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“Historia natural de Plantas, Animales y Minerales del sabio Medico y Botanico Ebn El-beytar, español, natural de la ciudad de Malaga.” Spanish and Arabic. Contains only the preface and the beginning of the Dictionary, “De Materia Medica,” or simples used as medicaments by the celebrated Abu Abdillah Mohammad Ibn Al-beythar, of Malaga, in Spain, who flourished in the xiv. century. The translator’s name is nowhere mentioned, but from the notes at the foot of each page there is reason to think that the translation was commenced by Don Josef Antonio Banqueri, who in 1802 published both the Arabic text and translation of Ebn Al-awam’s work on agriculture: “Libro de agricultura de Abu Zacaria Jahja Aben Mohamad ben Ahmed ebn el Awám, sevillano, traducido al castellano y anotado, &a;” Madrid, Imp. Real. 2 vol. fol. in Arabic, with a Span. translation. A note at the end of the preface (fol. 6 b) states the Arabic preface to have been copied from Casiri’s Bibliotheca Arabico-Escurialensis (vol. i. p. 278), though carefully collated with two copies of the same work in the possession of the translator.
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“Libro de las Propiedades de las Cosas.” Spanish translation [by Fr. Vicente de Burgos] of Bartholomew Glanville or “Bartholomeus Anglicus,” Liber de Proprietatibus Rerum. Though imperfect towards the middle, and at the end, the manuscript is finely executed, has the initials of chapters in red and other colours, and differs in many places from the Spanish translation first printed at Tolosa in 1494, fol., and Toledo 1529, fol.
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“Tratado de los metheoros o transmutaciones que los elementos hazen unos con otros; con sus causas y effectos;” divided into six parts, and having a table of contents at the end. The author’s name is nowhere given, but at fol. 34 he alludes to a work on astronomy published by him at Lisbon in 1632.