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GONÇALVES (J. Cardoso). O “LAPIDARIO DEL REY D. Alfonso X El Sabio”. Lisboa. 1929. - GONÇALVES (J. Cardoso) O “LAPIDARIO DEL REY D. Alfonso X El Sabio” . Estudo dêste Manuscrito iluminado do Século XIII (Da Biblioteca de S. Lourenço do Escorial). Lisboa: s.n., 1929. X, 68 pp.: il.; 280 mm. A study in Portuguese of the Lapidary of Alfonso X, the Wise, an illuminated codex from the 13th century preserved in the Library of San Lorenzo de El Escorial. The Lapidary is a treatise on stones and their virtues, related to the signs and stars, translated from Arabic into Castilian by Yehuda ben Moshe at the behest of the monarch, and constitutes one of the oldest scientific texts in the Castilian language. The Escurial codex, profusely illuminated with miniatures and capitals, was made known in a photochromolithographic reproduction published in Madrid in 1881. This work describes the manuscript and analyzes its decoration. Illustrated. A curious Portuguese contribution to the study of illumination and medieval Iberian scientific literature. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate