Salamanca, Biblioteca de la Universidad de Salamanca, MS 2490

Salamanca Armorial Facsimile Edition

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The Salamanca Armorial is a sixteenth-century manuscript created by Steve Tamburino, drummer of John II of Aragon and Ferdinand the Catholic. It was owned by Christoval de Torres and Agustin de Torres and came into the ownership of the Colegio Mayor in Cuenca. In the early nineteenth century, it went to the King of Spain's library. From the Palacio de Oriente in Madrid it reached Salamanca in 1954. The heraldic value of this manuscript is very high as it is dependent on the work of Garcia Alonso de Torres, blazonry official of Ferdinand the Catholic.

Summary of the Work

The manuscript includes a brief description of the Carolingian conquest of Iberia; a brief treatise on heraldry; drawings of tabards, standards, crowns, fish, feathers and other heraldic figures; and biblical, classical, and medieval blazons.

We have 1 facsimile edition of the manuscript "Salamanca Armorial": Armorial de Salamanca (Steve Tamborino) facsimile edition, published by Scriptorium, 1996

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Armorial de Salamanca (Steve Tamborino)

Valencia: Scriptorium, 1996

  • Commentary (Spanish) by De Riquer, Martí
  • Limited Edition: 350 copies
  • Full-size color reproduction of the entire original document, Salamanca Armorial: the facsimile attempts to replicate the look-and-feel and physical features of the original document; pages are trimmed according to the original format; the binding might not be consistent with the current document binding.

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