The original MS. was afterwards in the library of the Convent of Jesus,
and is now in the Academy of Sciences at Lisbon. Stephen Gonsalvez died
July 29th, 1627. The Missal is signed: "Steph. Glz. Abbas Sereicencis
fac. 1610." It has been very well reproduced in colours by Macia, of
Paris.
The "Genealogies of the House of Sandoval," written and painted in
Lisbon in 1612, is now in Paris. It is called "Genealogia universal de
la Nobilissima casa de Sandoval Ramo del Generoso tronco de los
soberanos Reyes de Castilla y Leon. Por Don Melchior de Teves del
Conseio Real de Castilla del Rey D? Philippe III."
At the foot of the page is written "Eduardus Caldiera Vlisspone
scripsit, Anno Dni MDCXII." This magnificent MS., which measures
forty-six by thirty centimetres, is numbered in the Catalogue of the
National Library as 10015. A grand frontispiece, formed of two columns
of the Composite Order, occupies the first page, representing a king in
royal robes and crown arresting the wheel of Fortune. Two lions
accompany the scene, and the motto of the picture is "Virtute duce non
comite Fortuna." Page 2 contains the various escutcheons of the family
of the Count of Lerma, for whom the book was written. It contains a
great number of portraits.
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