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Desengano de la espada, y norte de diestros

Treatise 1642 Spanish Spain

Cristobal de Cala

Leguina 1891 records this Cadiz 1642 octavo by Cristobal de Cala, natural de Lebrija and maestro examinado en el arte militar de las armas. He describes Cala as a partisan of Carranza, aged sixty-seven and with forty-two years as master when the work was published.

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Bibliographic Overview
TitleDesengano de la espada, y norte de diestros
AuthorCristobal de Cala
Earliest publication date1642
LanguageSpanish
CountrySpain
Document typeTreatise
Authority statement
Cristobal de Cala
FencingSwordsmanship Sword
Authority Roles
Author
Cristobal de Cala
Edition History
Desengano de la espada, y norte de diestros 1642
CityCádiz
PublisherNot specified
PrinterFernando Rey
Format
Pages[4], 48 leaves
DimensionsNot specified
Cadiz, 1642. 8vo. 4 preliminary leaves and 48 foliated leaves. Leguina 1891, p. 41. The author is described as a partisan of Carranza and a native of Lebrija.

Quality phase 118: Cádiz 1642 manifestation: four unnumbered leaves and 48 numbered leaves; octavo.

Quality phase 229: exact manifestation metadata enriched from individually checked external evidence.
Digital Witnesses
Google Books facsimile of the Cala section in the 1898 anthology
Facsimile HTML/PDF OCR
Google Books · open
Open facsimile of the 1898 anthology that reprints Cristobal de Cala's Desengano de la espada y norte de diestros in full.
USTC edition record
Catalogue HTML
USTC · open
Catalogue witness for the 1642 Cadiz printing, including collation and known-copy information.
Scholarly References
Gelli entry GEL-P243-E002
Gelli (1890)
Jacopo Gelli, Bibliografia generale della scherma con note critiche, biografiche e storiche.
Pages 243 · Entry GEL-P243-E002
Leguina entry LEG-P041-E001
Leguina 1891 (1891)
Enrique de Leguina, Libros de esgrima españoles y portugueses. Indice formado por Don Enrique de Leguina, Baron de la Vega de Hoz. Madrid: Impr. y Lit. de los Huerfanos, 1891.
Pages 41 · Entry LEG-P041-E001