AMAZING GENEALOGY
[Camaño family]: [Fol. 1 verso:] Noticia de la familia de Camaño, de su origen
antiquissimo, y de las de Vistaalegre, Rubianes, y Barrantes, nobles ramas suyas. [Madrid?] [c.1650].
Genealogy of the Camaño family, beginning with a transcription of a seventh-century inscription on a stone in Galicia (northern Spain), and ending with family news from time of writing (November 1644). The stone proves family descendance from the Trojans, and the Camaño can also (we learn) lay claim to lineage from the Roman emperors Trajan and Hadrian. A good example of this extraordinary genre.
Details
One volume, 20 cms. x 14.8 cms., quarto, fols. 1-74, 73-93 [1]. Signed: A-Z4 Aa4. Title within border of typographical decoration, with two fleurons. Woodcut initial, woodcut chiro symbol at fol. 3 recto. Light browning, some staining, bound in 18th-cent. speckled sheep, gilt decoration to spine, black goatskin label printed with gilt, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, edges speckled blue (binding rubbed). Inscription to front free endpaper verso, of Dompinor. Annotations to fol. 51 recto (shaved). An MS flourish to one of the fleurons on title-page.
CCPB000033864-8. Palau 193504. No copy located outside Spain.