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Manuscript/Mixed Material Tratado Tocante el Armar y disciplina de las Galeras. Dedicado al muy digno y Illustre Ambrosio Spinola, Duque de Sanceverino . . . General de las galeras de su Catholica Mag[esta]d en los estados de Flandes

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Title

  • Tratado Tocante el Armar y disciplina de las Galeras. Dedicado al muy digno y Illustre Ambrosio Spinola, Duque de Sanceverino . . . General de las galeras de su Catholica Mag[esta]d en los estados de Flandes

Summary

  • An unpublished manuscript of great interest for the study of sea-power in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, for the history of the Eighty Years War between the Dutch and Spain and for assessing the performance of galleys in the Spanish Armada of 1588; it gives the role of oared vessels in the attack on England extended discussion. Feneke has here produced a treatise resuming recent developments in naval tactics in order to examine the possible uses of this type of ship in Spanish service in the Netherlands.

Names

  • Feneke Muñoz, Carlos
  • Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • September 1, 1603

Headings

  • -  Eighty Year War-Dutch, Spain
  • -  Spinola, Federico
  • -  Warfare-study of

Notes

  • -  Manuscript signed by the author, on paper; written in a clear cursive script. 48 leaves. Small quarto. Original vellum. From the library of Ambrogio Spínola; with contemporary note "delo heredio spinola" on front leaf.
  • -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.
  • -  Description based on Global Gateway metadata.
  • -  drakenew

Medium

  • 1 sheet

Repository

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021699438

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Credit Line: Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Division.

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Chicago citation style:

Feneke Muñoz, Carlos, and Hans And Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection. Tratado Tocante el Armar y disciplina de las Galeras. Dedicado al muy digno y Illustre Ambrosio Spinola, Duque de Sanceverino . . General de las galeras de su Catholica Magestad en los estados de Flandes. September 1, 1603. Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2021699438/.

APA citation style:

Feneke Muñoz, C. & Hans And Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection. (1603) Tratado Tocante el Armar y disciplina de las Galeras. Dedicado al muy digno y Illustre Ambrosio Spinola, Duque de Sanceverino . . General de las galeras de su Catholica Magestad en los estados de Flandes. September 1. [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2021699438/.

MLA citation style:

Feneke Muñoz, Carlos, and Hans And Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection. Tratado Tocante el Armar y disciplina de las Galeras. Dedicado al muy digno y Illustre Ambrosio Spinola, Duque de Sanceverino . . General de las galeras de su Catholica Magestad en los estados de Flandes. September 1, 1603. Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2021699438/>.