Extent: 18 leaves : parchment ; 210 x 150 mm, bound to 216 x 161 mm
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Ms. codex. Title devised by cataloger. Collation: Parchment, fol. 18 (foliated in modern pencil in arabic numerals in upper right corner); 18 28(-2; 8+1) 32; vertical catchwords. Layout: Written on up to 24 lines; ruled in brown ink. Script: Written in brown ink in a gothic rounded hand; added paragraph in cursive script with witness signatures on fol. 18r. Decoration: Opening initial in red 4-lines high with purple filigree penwork, 38 similar smaller initials introducing each chapter; rubrics in red, a few crosses in red used as word separators. Binding: Contemporary (second half of the 16th century?) brown calf over wooden boards, sides gilt with four smaller tools, smooth spine with gilt fleurons, two fore-edge clasps and catches. Origin: Copied, decorated, and bound in Spain. The manuscript was evidently copied in Maqueda, located within the autonomous community of Castilla-La Mancha and the province of Toledo. Although these ordinances were likely copied in the first quarter of the 16th century, the actual text was composed and promulgated in 1493 as stated in the prologue: "An[n]o del nascime[n]to de n[uest]ro... Shelfmark: Berkeley, CA, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, MS UCB 184.
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