Help in the identity of a print(color print infront text at the back)

Hi All
I put this as part of another thread I started but it seems fit to start a new one to avoid confusion.
Recently I acquired a vintage color repro print of the Grimani Breviary illumination series (month of July) ..after I removed it from its nice vintage frame it has a text print at the back either in Portuguese or Spanish.
Apparently it is related to a Spanish politician, diplomat and writer during the spanish civil war (and afterwards) by the name Jose Antonio Gimenez Arnau. I am not sure whether the text was part of his writings..the theme appears to be the spanish civil war politics and entitled AGOSTO ..and the front of the paper is the July Grimani Brevieary color print.The color print is this one from wiki and I have attached the photo of the back text.Any ideas are appreciated about the nature of this print, Thanks!
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/...i_Breviary_-_The_Month_of_July_-_WGA15781.jpg

TTA

 

I can tell you it's in Spanish. Agosto = August. And there are entries for some days of the week. A number of mentions of a person's (the writer?) diary.

 

thanks Bakersgma..it could also be Portuguese as agosto is also for portuguese..yeah some kind of diary or memoir involving a voluntary retreat of some kind in the Spanish conflict (by google translating the title)..but it is enigmatic ..lets see if someone shows up with more light
TTA

 

I realize that August is the same in both. But scanning over the rest of the page, I concluded Spanish.

 

ok thanks , in that case it could be..also the theme and the person in the title are spanish in any case
TTA

 

A rough translation of a small part of the text

AUGUST THE NATIONAL SPANISH COUNTY OF LONDON NOTE FROM THE BOARD ON THE RETREAT OF VOLUNTEERS

EGUIMOS in the Sierra Toro. Meters, Calm Since the Santiago in which Resinal war lasts this a summer naturist Knudos in the hour From the mountain that From the barrancada in which we camp we do not see anything. On lanatico landscape that was titie of ama beginnings still does not make true the refran of drio in face See kill the hours with dream, books and discussions. The bodies that only last a fortnight or three or more hours on the floor now rest eight or ten on a mat! Tabor has a log volume of Romanian Engineers and Democracy. Of Vegas or that I own until near the one of August. And it was designed by Theology with the uncompromising Pater as it is convenient at the moment: from Italian with the words of the devil, and of love, of geography, dc, art with which he was tercia. There are also some hours dedicated to the care and beautification of homes. He talks passionately about them. Our store has been overtaken three times. As many as it has rained In this aspect there are two champions. The General who has a stone dwelling with some cement to the tie, pomposamen tc naman house. And the Lieutenant Colonel of Artillery, who in refinement has reached unsuspected limits: arms books, light to read. Then there are the visits as a final weapon to kill the time Manana we eat with the Lieutenant Colonel in the Middle and to go one day To see the first centuria that nego is enough the top of the Julian Feather ... So, calm, calm and gentle tedium, are passing the first days of August Strong caponeo. The reds say they have broken. So says my diary. We arrived in the early morning the N. yo. To eat the single dish in a took some steps, we returned to the camp of madru gada. From the Masia to the top we came groping. Absolute lack of that dawn Fortunately N is energetic and zonamientos orders They took them to the field nmngun my reasonings would have given with Tomorrow we eat with the Lieutenant Colonel in the Media Lunaa that one day go to see the first century that reached the top of the Peña Juliana. Thus, sun, calm and kind tedium, are passing the first days of August Friday 12. Strong ca neo. The Reds say that they have broken the front. So says my diary, Captain N. and I have arrived at dawn. After eating the single dish in Zaragoza, where we took some steps, we returned to the camp of madru From the top fame of absolute capacity of orientation won that dawn. And zoning his orders. The orders took us to the camp. My reasoning would have been with our courage. Just when the reds started, it was hard to do. Day And the whole is a constant artillery duel. The night brings the calm Red party and wishing to tell the truth in the news releases, And with the permission of the Red Army of East I sleep on the loose. The next day I write. Next day: Sunday 14 The day of the Virgin has been Mass and communion And reading. Or I have my Diary this August 15, the following sentence of Joachim Du Benay: Plus je voyageais loin, plus j'aimais ma hurt me mainly because in a similar way to August sentence in which I met Jose Antonio I spoke in that other the phalanx. My first encounter with Primo de Rivera in another August, women and tie. To interpreters of other days from a beginning to list and Agostos on Tuesday San Joaquin El Diario only says jump from bed to bed in that Years before there would have been a letter room where we both slept and the fraternal embrace Or with nothing the Hand the brother's chest, or anything other than that San in pencil. Instead the thought has worked hours and hours walking and young man, who killed the hatred of the enemy.

 

Oyeah it's spanish

 

Spanish Civil War propoganda. Translates as:

August
by José A. Giménez Arnau
Nationalist Spain and the London Committee
A memo from the Caudillo (i.e. Franco) about the Withdrawal of Volunteers

Debora

 

thanks Antiquer and thanks Debora!
Why such spanish wartime material got printed at the back of a Grimani Breviary illumination repro print beats me..maybe for camouflage?
TTA

 

Are you sure it's not a leaf from a book? July = text + illustration, August = text + illustration.

Debora

 

Not at all..it is a single print on hard paper..and furthermore the Augusto propaganda text is at the back of the Grimani Brevieary color print entitled "month of july" which is framed.
TTA

 

however maybe there could be other prints like this with other months with illustration and texts at the back..but in this case it is augosto at the back of a july illustration..
TTA

 

A page from a book or portfolio would seem possible - Text regarding July would be on the left hand leaf with illustration on the right, text for August would be printed on the reverse of illustration of July while the text would be on the facing sheet.........i think.............

 

Are you saying... On one side of the paper the breviary is printed and on the other the Giménez Arnau piece? Then it's most likely a leaf from a book. What's the size.

Debora

 

Yes..that is the case ...a non titled color picture print in front and a text on the back and it was nicely framed and I only saw the text when I took it out...size is 37cm by 25cm..I don't think it is from a book.no such a sign on the paper which suggests it was taken out of a book.. It is a hard paper.thanks!
TTA

 

Thanks..if it is a book that seems possible..but is very large thick paper and no sign it was detached from a book.Also no page numbers.
TTA

 

then probably from a portfolio

 

Yes, that's what I would imagine. The type of thing sold at a kiosco in a handsome card cover. Commemorative, perhaps on the 30th anniversary of the war. And suitable for framing.

Debora

 

True..it could be from a portfolio of some sort...though could not find anything that looks like it on the net..
TTA

 

Extremely common in Spain.

Debora