The Perils of Persiles and Sigismunda, a Northern Saga

Summary

With privileges. In Madrid. By Juan de la Cuesta

Funded by Juan de Villarroel, book dealer in the Silver District

PRICING STATEMENT2

I, JERÓNIMO NÚÑEZ de León, clerk for the Chamber of our seigneur the king, who resides among the authorities of his Council, attest that, with approval from said men, they, having reviewed a book titled History of the Labours of Persiles and Sigismunda, composed by Miguel de Cervantes de Saavedra, have priced each sheet of said book at four maravedís. At this rate and no more, they ordered the book, which appears to have two hundred thirty-two sheets, to be sold, and that this price be placed at the beginning of every copy that is printed. For this to be known, by order of the said authorities of the Council and at the request of said Miguel de Cervantes, I so attest. In Madrid, twenty-three December, 1616.

Jerónimo Núñez de León

It has fifty-eight sheets, that, at four maravedís, amount to six reales and twenty-eight maravedís.

CERTIFICATION OF ERRATA

THIS BOOK, TITLED History of the Labours of Persiles and Sigismunda (Historia de los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda), corresponds with the original.

Approved in Madrid, on the fifteenth of the month of December, in the year one thousand six hundred sixteen.

Murcia de la Llana, Esq.

THE KING

CONCERNING YOUR REQUEST, Doña Catalina de Salazar, widow of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, we were informed that said Miguel de Cervantes had left a book titled The Labours of Persiles (Los trabajos de Persiles), in which he invested considerable study and effort, and you asked us to command permission for it to be printed with authorization for twenty years or as we saw fit. Following review by our Council and by their order due diligence was done regarding the printing of books according to our updated regulation; it was found that we should issue this licence of ours for you per the review, and thus we saw fit to do.