Robles, Eugenio de.

4to (195 x 142mm.), [20], 344, [12]pp., illustration: engraved arms of Cardinal Ximenez on title-page, engraved portrait of Ximenez at end of preliminaries, woodcut initials, woodcut printer's device at end, binding: eighteenth-century calf gilt, spine gilt in compartments, C4 and Mm4 torn without loss

Palau 271137

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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first edition. Cardinal Ximenez (1436-1517) was the founder of the University of Alcalà and the progenitor of the Complutensian Polyglot Bible. He became confessor to Queen Isabella in 1492, Archbishop of Toledo and High Chancellor of Spain in 1495; on the death of Philip of Burgundy in 1506, he became de facto ruler of Castille, and was regent during the minority of Charles V.

He was also the champion of the Mozarabic Rite, which had been used in Moorish Spain until the eleventh century, when the Roman Rite was introduced. There was resistance in Toledo to this replacement and it was allowed to be retained by certain parishes. When Ximenez became Archbishop of Toledo, he had a Mozarabic missal and breviary printed.