Martín de Vizcay y la enmarañada impresión de un libro reivindicativo: Derecho de Naturaleza que los naturales de la Merindad de San Juan de Pie de Puerto tienen en los reynos de la Corona de Castilla (Zaragoza, 1621)

Abstract

Martín de Vizcay, neighbouring of Low Navarre, published in 1621 a book claiming the right of nature in Castilla and High Navarre of the natives of Ultrapuertos. It is a text of interest to historians because of the historical and legal arguments that it uses, as well as for its heraldic component. Two ancient editions and an extract translated into french are known, as well as a few fragmentary manuscript copies. The work is examined from the perspective of the old printed book, as a typographic and editorial product. It is an exercise of material bibliography and bibliographic history that reveals the irregularities and incidents of its first edition, and uncovers the illicit nature of the second. The attempts of reissued and the allusions to the work that happen in the last decades of the XVIII century give an idea of its validity until the end of the Ancient Regime.