The Macclesfield copy of this family history of the Veras, a noble Aragonese family, tracing them back to Numa Pompilius; an early Lima printing from the press of Jerónimo de Contrera.
Printing began in Lima in 1584 with the press of Antonio Ricardo and Jerónimo de Contreras, originally a printer in Seville, was active there from 1621–39, with his descendants continuing the press throughout the century.
The history was commissioned by Fernando Carlos Antonio de Vera y Figueroa, vizconde de Sierra Brava, to whom the work is dedicated and whose coat of arms appears on f.2. It has also been attributed viscount’s uncle, Fernando de Vera y Zúñiga, archbishop of Santo Domingo and bishop of Cuzco. There may be confusion as the Vera y Zúñiga and other family members provided Puente with sources (see: G. de Santiago Vela, Ensayo de una biblioteca ibero-americana de la Orden de San Agustín, vol. 8, p. 150-152).
There are some ms. annotations on ff. 13verso and 15verso, and a few elsewhere, transcribed from the list of addenda at the end. Folios 173-180) which have only partially have been numbered in print, have been numbered in ms. It is possible that these ms. additions (all written in the same hand) may have been made in the atelier of the printer.
Provenance: from the library of the Earls of Macclesfield at Shirburn Castle, with their armorial bookplate and blindstamps.
Occasional marginal dampstain but otherwise a very fresh copy.
Medina (Lima) 177 (copies at BL (606.c.43), Bodley, ONB (60.J.21), Portugal, JCB (?), NYPL (*KE 1635; imp. lacking Parrafos)
Palau 240241. Sabin 66580. Vargas Ugarte Bib Peruana 255.
Not at Yale, Harvard. No copy seems to have been sold at auction. Attributed by some bibliographers to Fernando de Vera.
