Harvard University, MS Span 38

Metadata

DS ID:

DS10823

Shelfmark:

MS Span 38

Title:

Tragedia de la insigne reyna doña Ysabel

Author:

Pedro, Constable of Portugal, 1429-1466

Peter, Constable of Portugal WIKIDATA

Date:

ca. 1455-1459

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

spa

Spanish WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 v. (80 leaves) : vellum, ill. ; 23 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Palha, Fernando, -1897

Fernando Palha WIKIDATA

Note:

Written in an unidentified hand in southern textualis formata script; with illuminated initials, some with gilt; with 1 full-page color floral border with illustrations in pen and gilt of birds, monkeys and a man and a grisaille depiction of a blind-folded woman holding Pedro, Constable of Portugal's coat of arms sideways over a wheel of fortune, in which is inscribed Pedro's motto (f. 1r).
Includes a seperate envelope of photostats (ff. 1v-4r, 80r).
Bound in brown calf.
In a red morocco pull-off case, 24 cm.
Gift of John B. Stetson, Jr. (A.B. 1906), in memory of Aleixo de Queiroz Ribeira de Sotomayor d'Almeida e Vasconcellos, Count of Santa Eulalia, 1929.
Bookplate of Fernando Palha.
This volume belonged to Pedro, Constable of Portugal and is listed in his 1466 inventory.

Keyword:

poems

coats of arms

Manuscripts, Medieval

Isabel, of Coimbra, Queen, consort of Afonso V, King of Portugal, 1432-1455

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990097231110203941/catalog

Holding Institution:

Harvard University