Memorial a la reyna N.S. cerca las mvertes qve en odio de la fe : y religion christiana dieron los moriscos revelados a los christianos viejos (y algvnos nvevos) residentes en las Alpuxarras deste reyno de Granada, en el levantamiento del año 1568.
1671
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Memorial a la reyna N.S. cerca las mvertes qve en odio de la fe : y religion christiana dieron los moriscos revelados a los christianos viejos (y algvnos nvevos) residentes en las Alpuxarras deste reyno de Granada, en el levantamiento del año 1568.
Created/published
Granada : En la Impr. Real del lic. Baltasar de Bolibar, 1671.
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84 leaves ; 21 cm
Associated name
Escolano y Ledesma, Diego, Abp. of Granada, author.
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270313
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Purchase made possible by The Eric and Mary Weinmann Acquisitions Fund. From dealer's description: "4to (194 x 138 mm). 84, [4] leaves. Roman type, shoulder notes. Type-ornament title border, one large white-on-black woodcut initial. Soiled, some marginal dampstaining, cut close by the binder catching a few letters of shoulder notes on fols. A2-3. 19th-century mottled sheep, upper cover with blind-stamped arms of William Stirling, edges stained red (spine and extremities rubbed, a couple of small holes in leather). Provenance: a few early pen trials; W. B. Chorley, small inkstamp on title, sale, Sotheby’s, 21 October 1846, lot 465; William Stirling [-Maxwell] (1818-1878), supra-libros and bookplate. FIRST EDITION of an important early history of the Morisco Revolt of 1568, published a century after its tragic conclusion. The Muslim inhabitants of the mountains of Alpujarra, southeast of Granada, were among the last Spanish Muslims to be forced to convert to Catholicism after the fall of the Emirate of Granada in 1492. Resistance among the Moriscos (a term for the Muslim converts) remained strong in these mountain communities, and an organized revolt in 1499 was suppressed in 1501. Continued forced conversions of the population resulted in a second major rebellion, which lasted from 1568 to 1571, with attacks in Granada and above all in the mountainous regions of the Alpujarras. Significant numbers of inhabitants were killed, and prisoners on both sides were sold into slavery. Following suppression of the revolt, roughly half the Morisco population of the Kingdom of Granada was expelled, causing an economic collapse that required a government-directed repopulation of the area from different regions of Spain. There was never a full recovery. The present pro-Catholic account is the result of an enquiry directed by Escolano y Ledesma, the 12th Archbishop of Granada, with the goal of obtaining from Rome an acknowledgement of the saintliness of the priests who died at the hands of the rebels. The history, if one-sided, is meticulous, and is arranged geographically, each chapter containing an account of the occurrences in a single village or town, with documentary footnotes printed in side-notes. It is a grisly tale of murder and dismemberment, even omitting the equally hideous atrocities of the Catholic side. It concludes with two indices, of place names and persons, and a table of references to victims whose names were unknown. An omitted village name is added in contemporary manuscript. William Brownswood Chorley (b. 1804), older brother of the Hispanist John Rutter Chorley, amassed a huge collection of Spanish books, sold at Sotheby’s in 1846, where William Stirling (whose name was changed to Stirling-Maxwell in 1865) presumably purchased this copy. OCLC lists two copies in the US (Princeton and Newberry), one at the National Library of Spain, and one at the National Library of Israel. A facsimile reprint was published in 1999 with an historical essay and appendices by Antonio Puertas García. Palau 81343." Ordered from Nina Musinsky Rare Books, D9200, 2018-04-30, Item 13.
Folger accession
270313