University of California, Berkeley, BANC MS UCB 156

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DS ID:

DS12394

Shelfmark:

BANC MS UCB 156

Title:

A brief discoverie of the estate of the kingdomes of Spayne and Portugall; viz. all the Kinges shipping ... all his forces ... all his cleargie and nobilitie ... all his provinces ... besides many other particulars of moment

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

ca. 1590

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

English

English WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 23 leaves : paper ; 182 x 139 mm. bound to 189 x 145 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1r).
Collation: Paper, fol. ii (modern paper) + 23 + ii (modern paper); quire structure indiscernable.
Layout: Variable number of lines per page; some short texts with headings, some columnar tables to present numerical information.
Script: Written mostly in a secretary script by one hand.
Decoration: Headings in calligraphic display script.
Binding: Quarter-bound with morocco spine and linen over modern boards; contiguous endsheet and pastedown.
Shelfmark: Berkeley, CA, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, MS UCB 156.
Former shelfmark: Berkeley, CA, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, 2MS DP178.B75.

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

Great Britain

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Portugal

Armada (1588)

Manuscripts, English

Spain

Institutional Record:

https://search.library.berkeley.edu/permalink/01UCS_BER/1thfj9n/alma991035315279706532

IIIF Manifest:

https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/nanna/proxy/iiif/manifest/229528/

Holding Institution:

University of California, Berkeley