Silva de varia leccion
By: Compuesta por Pedro Mexia, natural de Sevilla. En la qual e tratan muchas cosos muy agradables, y curiosas
Contributors: Ariño, Martín de; Isocrates
Edition: Van añadidas en esta vltima impression quinta y sexta parte; y vn Parenesis de Isocrates, traducido de Latin en lengua Castellana por el mismo autor, con muchas sentencias morales.
Publisher: por Matheo de Espinosa y Atteaga. Año de 1673.; A costa de Antonio del Ribero Rodriguez, Librero à la subida de la Red de San Luis.
Published: 1673
Place of publication: En Madrid
Language: spa
Number of pages: 571
Subjects: Death and burial; Kings and rulers; Aztecs
Notes: Originally published under title: Libro llamado Silua d'varia lecio[n]. Seville, July 1540.

First published under present title, Madrid, 1602.

Fifth and sixth parts of text first published Saragossa, 1554(?), written by Martín de Ariño.

Title surrounded by ornamental border.

Colophon: En Madrid por Mateo de Espinosa, y Arteaga. Año de 1673.

Signatures: [paragraph]⁶ chi² A-4C⁴ ([paragraph] 1 verso, chi 1 recto, chi 2 verso blank). Gathering chi is a cancellans, replacing the erroneously duplicated text on leaves [paragraph] 5 verso and [paragraph] 6 recto.

A variant state is known where the error of the duplicated text has been corrected, and this state has therefore only 12 preliminary pages.

Errors in foliation.

Errata (p.[14] =chi 1 verso)

Text divided into six parts.

Chapter 19 of the sixth part, by Martín de Ariño, headed: "Del ossario, que tenian los de la Nueva España para remembrança de la muerte, y como entierran sus reyes, quando meuren.", deals with the Aztecs of Mexico (p. 546-548)

Includes: "Paranesis o exortacion a virtud de Isocrates, ..." (p. 562-571); translated, by Pedro Mexía, from the Latin of: Parenesis Isocratis ad Demonicum, e Græco in Latinum traducta. In: Rodolphi Agricole Phrysii ... Nonnulla opuscula. Antwerp, 1511; originally translated from a Greek manuscript into Latin, by Rodolphus Agricola.

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 3:259-260.

Palau y Dulcet (2nd ed.) 167284.

European Americana 673/110.