Libro primero [-quarto] de prouisiones, cedulas, capitulos de ordenanças, instruciones, y cartas
By: libradas y despachadas en diferentes tiempos por Sus Magestades de los señores reyes catolicos don Fernando y doña Ysabel, y emperador don Carlos de gloriosa memoria, y doña Iuana su madre, y catolico rey don Felipe, con acuerdo de los señores presidentes, y de su Consejo real de las Indias, que en sus tiempos ha auido tocantes al buen gouierno de las Indias, y administracion de la justicia en ellas. Sacado todo ello de los libros del dicho consejo por su mandado, para que se sepa, entienda, y se tenga noticia de lo que cerca dello està proueydo desques que se descubrieron las Indias hasta agora..
Contributors: Encinas, Diego de, approximately 1525-approximately 1612; Consejo de Indias (Spain)
Publisher: En la Imprenta Real.
Published: 1596
Place of publication: En Madrid
Language: spa
Subjects: Law; Colonies; Administration
Other titles: Libro primero [-quarto] de provisiones, cedvlas, capitvlos de ordenanças, instruciones, y cartas; Libro primero [-quarto] de provisiones, cedulas, capitulos de ordenanzas, instruciones, y cartas
Work titles: Laws, etc
Notes: An attempt to gather the scattered laws of the Indies by Diego de Encinas, "an old and experienced Clerk of the Secretariat," Begun in 1582, and printed for private use of the Council of the Indies, the collection was not released as its organization was inadequate and the Council expected a more satisfactory one to be compiled.

Pagination: volume 1: [28], 462, [4] pages; volume 2: [30], 382 pages; volume 3: [28], 182, 189-386, 389-482 pages; volume 4: [20], 74, 74-76, page 76, 77-415, [1] pages.

Signatures: volume 1: [par.]⁸ ([par.]1 verso blank) 2[par.]⁶ A-2F⁸ (L2, M5, S2, S3, X3, Y1 missigned H2, L5, P2, P3, Z1) (2F7, 2F8 blank); volume 2: 2G⁸ 2g⁸ (-2g8) 2H-3G⁸ (2H4, 2H5 misnumbered H4, H5) 3H⁸ (-3H8); volume 3: A⁸ (A1 verso blank) B⁶ (B6 blank) a-r⁸ (b4, b5, d4, k1, k2, k3, k4 missgned B4, B5, d3, K1, K2, K3, K4) v-2h⁸ (z5 missugned Z5) 2i⁶ (-2i6); volume 4: 2K⁸ (2K1 verso blank) ²2K² l-3n⁸ (2y4, 2y5, 2z3, 2z4, 2z5, 3c3, 3c4 missigned 2z4, 2z5, 3Z3, 2Z4, 2Z5, 3C3, 3C4) chi1.

Errors in paging: volume 1: page 55 and 58, 2nd count, misnumbered 65 and 68; volume 2: page 79, 109, 175, 277, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282, 283, 284, 286, 287, 308, 375, 378, and 379  misnumbered 49, 119, 275, 137, 238, 139, 340, 341, 342, 343, 244, 246, 247, 312, 377, 376, and 397; volume 3: pages 9, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, and 59, 2nd count, misnumbered 11, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, and 69; pages 310, 373, and 374, 3rd count, misnumbered 308, 363, and 364; volume 4: pages 102, 103, 134, 135, 191, and 213, 5th count, misnumbered 202, 203, 234, 235, 291, and 113.

Volume 4 has catchword on page 75, 3rd count reading "les"; it does not correspond to the text on page 76, 3rd count, and there is text missing, nor does it correspond to any of the other succeeding pages.

Engraved arms of Spain engraved below titles.

Streit, R. Bibliotheca missionum, I:222

Medina, J.T. Biblioteca hispano-americana (1493-1810), 371

Palau y Dulcet, A. Manual del librero hispano-americano (2. ed.), 79631

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, I: page 253

European Americana, 596/100

Purchase; 1846; 0281.

Purchase; 1846; 0282.

Purchase; 1846; 0283.

Purchase; 1846; 0284.