I Did Not Know This Was Here: Sixteenth-Century English Books of Controversy at the Historical Library of Santa Cruz (Valladolid) and their Provenance

Abstract

This BA Dissertation describes bibliographically ten books from the Historical Library of Santa Cruz (Valladolid) and examines the direct evidence of provenance present in them in order to find out more about the history of their circulation. These books have been selected for their analysis on the basis of having been written by English authors in the sixteenth century and touching the Catholic – Protestant polemists of the time, and consists of works by John Bridgewater, Robert Persons, Nicholas Sanders, and Thomas Stapleton. In addition, the analyzed books have been searched for in other libraries of Spain to determine their rarity.

Este trabajo describe bibliográficamente diez libros pertenecientes a la Biblioteca Histórica de Santa Cruz (Valladolid) y examina las pruebas directas de procedencia de los mismos para averiguar cuál es la historia de su circulación. Estos libros fueron seleccionados en base a su autoría por parte de autores ingleses del siglo XVI y a los temas que tratan: la controversia católica y protestante de la época, con autores como John Bridgewater, Robert Persons, Nicholas Sanders y Thomas Stapleton. Además, también se ha buscado si las mismas ediciones de estos libros se encuentran en otras bibliotecas de España para determinar su rareza.