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(CONVERSOS.) Pablo de Santa Maria; and Alonso de Cartagena. Suma de las Choronicas de Espana hecha por . . . el Obispo Don Pablo, Al fin deste libro . . . esta la defension de Don Alonso de Cartagena . . . en el concilio de Basilea sobre la Prelacion en Asiento de los Catholicos Reyes de Castilla, a los de Inglaterra. manuscript in spanish, written in informal cursive hand in black ink, recto and verso, on laid paper. [100] leaves, including title and 2 blanks. 308x218 mm, 18th-century mottled sheep gilt; scattered stains. Bookplates of the Duque de Hijar and Antonio Canovas del Castillo. [dated Burgos, September 1461 on leaves 62r-v, but the manuscript is a later transcription]
Transcription of writings by two of the most prominent Jewish apostates of medieval Spain: Pablo de Santa Maria (born Solomon Halevi, circa 1350-1435), Bishop of Burgos, and his son and successor in that position, Alonso de Cartagena (circa 1385-1456). The Suma by Pablo (leaves 2r-62v) is an unpublished history of Spain from antiquity to the early 15th century. The polemic by Alonso on the precedence of the King of Castile over the King of England (64r- 99v), originally written in Latin, had its origin in a protocol dispute between the Spanish and English delegations at the Council of Basel. A note at the end of the Suma states that the manuscript was written in Burgos in September 1461 by Fernan Martines, "escrivano publico," possibly for Juan Martines, friar at the Monastery of Santo Domingo de Benfica near Lisbon, whose name is mentioned immediately after. EJ XIII, 3-4.
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