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Discripción histórica delos Reales Jardines de San Ilde Fonso, (Bulgo) La Granja, con la significación de fuentes, estatuas, grupos, jarrones, basos, animales, fabulas, y todo genera de estructuras . . .

 
HOLLIS Number
Publication
[Place of publication not identified]: [publisher not identified], [between 1793 and 1808]

Description

Digital facsimile

[410], [4] p. ; 21 cm.

Final [4] p. are blank.

Latest date written in manuscript is 1793. On p. [390], under "Octabas reales," author writes: "...'sitio de San Ildefonso y sus jardines, donde S.M.C. de España, D[o]n Carlos Quarto (que Dios guarde) tiene su recreo y diverción." Charles IV of Spain reigned from 1788 to 1808. The manuscript can thus be dated to between 1793 and 1808.

Handwritten ms., bound in vellum.

Some pages have numbers written in same ink as ms. along upper corner, but it is unknown what these numbers reference. P. [1] of the ms. has "30" written at the upper right corner.

History of the development of the royal gardens of San Idelfonso, La Granja, with a detailed description of the fountains, statuary, garden ornaments and buildings therein.

 

Language

Spanish
 

Subject

Palacio Real (San Ildefonso, Spain) -- History -- Early works to 1800.; Royal gardens -- Spain -- San Ildefonso -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.; Royal gardens -- Spain -- San Ildefonso -- Early works to 1800.; Gardens -- Spain -- San Ildefonso -- History -- Early works to 1800.; Garden ornaments and furniture -- Spain -- San Ildefonso -- Early works to 1800.; Fountains -- Spain -- San Ildefonso -- Early works to 1800.; San Ildefonso (Spain) -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.