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Identifier: ramblesinsunnysp00ober (find matches)
Title: Rambles in sunny Spain
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Ober, Frederick A(lbion), 1849- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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employed at the siege of Baza, by a Moorish king, in 1312 and 1325. More than twenty pieces of artillery used at the siege of Baza, says Prescott, in Ferdinand and Isabella, are still to be seen in that city, where they long served as columns in the market-place; and we were told in Granada that some of them are there still. More artillery of ancient date can be found in Spain, perhaps, than in any other country of Europe, owing to the demand for it immediately upon its invention, by the Spanish sovereigns, to use in their wars against the Moors. But it has to a great extent been destroyed and recast; and the French are responsible for the disappearance of a vast quantity. For the French had respect neither for antiquity nor historic association, in their invasion of Spain of eighty years ago, and razed to the ground many of Spains monuments, as well as plundered her of richest treasures. Another museum, but of minor interest, is the Mtcsco Arqucolooico (or archaeological). There are
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CARDINAL XIMEXES. SOME MIDSUMMER DAYS IN MADRID. IO9 several libraries, including that of the Duke of Veragua, a descendantof Columbus, the Palace library, and the National. The Biblioteca Nacional (or National Library) has many famousbooks, including the earliest publications of the world. There wefind the Forum Judicorum, the earliest code of Spanish laws, andilluminated manuscript of the eleventh century (1095), a Gothic ritualof the thirteenth century, in primitive Spanish, and a copy of thefirst book ever printed in Spain, or at least of the second. Thefirst press (according to Prescott) appears to have been erected atValencia, in 1474, and the first book printed in Spain a collection ofsongs in honor of the Virgin. The first classic was of the works ofSallust, in 1475. The book shown us in the Madrid library as the firstprint of the press was printed in Valencia, 1475. The claim of Valencia to the first printing-press is disputed byBarcelona, but to Valencia doubtless belongs th

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