The Spanish Golden Age

EuroDocs > History of Spain: Primary Documents > Golden Age

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• Recueil de pièces concernant l'Espagne et le Portugal

Documents on the history of Portugal and Spain, including testaments and marriage licenses of the royal families.

(12th-17th centuries; Portuguese and Spanish facsimiles)

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• Exploration and Expansion

(Translations and transcriptions).

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• Treaty between Spain and Portugal, concluded at Vitoria

(19 February 1524; English translation)

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• De correspondentie van Willem van Oranje
• The correspondence of William of Orange (main leader of the Dutch Revolt against Spain)

Letters accessible by browsing or by advanced search protocols

Over 12,000 letters digitized by the Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis

(1551-1584, facsimiles of letters in various languages, mostly Dutch and French).

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• Letter from Lope de Aguirre, rebel, to King Philip of Spain.

From the Internet Modern History Sourcebook.

(1561, English translation).

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• Spain Sovereign (1527-1598) Philip: Council of Trent

History of King Philip II with digital images of the Council of Trent document, MSS 143

Richard C. Kessler Reformation Collection, Archives and Manuscripts Dept., Pitts Theology Library, Emory University

(12 July 1564; facsimiles)

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• Queen Elizabeth I against the Spanish Armada

(1588; modernized transcription and commentary)

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• Previously Unpublished Letters of Philip II, Habsburg King of Spain

(1592-1597, facsimiles).

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• Basque manuscripts

As found in the Archivo General de Simancas (Spain) within the section Estado, legajo 181.

From the Lopéz Martín Manuscript Collection.

(1598; Basque transcriptions)

• Lopéz Martín Manuscript Collection

(1566-1630; Spanish and Basque transcriptions and facsimiles)

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• Catalonian Manuscripts

From Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley

(1031-1555; facsimiles)

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• LHE - Legislación Histórica de España

Historical document collection of Spanish laws searchable through a database or Thesaurus.

(13th - 19th centuries; facsimiles and descriptions)

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• Parallel Histories: Spain, the United States, and the American Frontier
  Historias Paralelas: España, Estados Unidos y la Frontera Americana

A bilingual digital library site with documentation of interactions between Spain and North America

from the 15th to the 19th centuries.

A cooperative project of the Biblioteca Nacional de España, the Biblioteca Colombina y Capitular of Seville,

and the Library of Congress.

(15th - 19th centuries; facsimiles of books, maps, prints, photographs, manuscripts, and other documents)

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• Early Modern Spain

Database of research on the literature, culture and history of the Spanish Golden Age.

Includes electronic text transcriptions of publications by historical figures such as Columbus and Cervantes.

(Transcriptions)

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• Early Modern Historical Monographs and Documents

A French project that also includes Spanish items digitized at libraries in Toulouse.

(16th-18th centuries; facsimiles)

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• Colección Digital de Mapas, Planos y Dibujos del Archivo General de Simancas

Digital collection of documents from the General Archive of Simancas

Part of the Portal de Arquivos Españoles website

(16th - 20th centuries; facsimiles, maps, drawings and descriptions)

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• The Catholic Reformation

From Hanover College's texts on Early Modern Europe.

(Translations)

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EuroDocs > History of Spain: Primary Documents > Golden Age

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EuroDocs Creator: Richard Hacken, European Studies Bibliographer,
Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA.
Feel free to get in touch: Hacken @ byu.edu