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Incluye los nn. 971-1365.

Glendenning 1959-63: “The Conde sales [!], for instance, included books from the Mayans library (No. 508 for example); a book which had belonged to Jovellanos (No. 521); another which had been presented to Don Antonio by Meléndez Valdés; and several books and manuscripts from the Escurial, some of which we know to have been in the hands of Salvá. There is no reason for supposing that all of these items had formed part of the Arabist’s collection. The reference to the sale in the émigré periodical Ocios de los españoles emigrados suggests that many of them did not.”