University of California, Berkeley, BANC MS UCB 143 v.124

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS12761

Shelfmark:

BANC MS UCB 143 v.124

Title:

Cronica dela destrucion y renuevo de las españas

Place:

Spain

Spain TGN

Date:

approximately 1450.

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

spa

Spanish WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 volume ([1], 340 leaves) : parchment and paper ; 34 x 27 cm

Note:

Written in sepia and red ink in two to three distinct hands in a Gothic script, in double columns, on both sides of leaves. First two folios are parchment, the rest is paper. Illuminated initials in red or purple ink, some with alternating purple or red ink decorative scrolls, which do not appear in all chapters although space has been left for them. Rubricated in red ink throughout. Pauses...
Friction caused by rubbing has damaged ff. 1r and 2v, affecting legibility of the text. Numerous reparations to the leaves throughout. Fol. 3 is torn on the right margin and is suffering from deterioration. Likewise, many of the final folios (328-340) have been cut and/or torn and are deteriorating, leaving some with only fragments of legible text. F. 244 is loose from the binding.
Bound in 18th-cent. calf and marbled paper boards, spine gilt, green morocco spine label: Cronica general. Edges stained red.
Title from fly-leaf.
Dedication (f. 1r): Enel nonbre del padre e del fijo e del sp[irit]u santo.
Watermark: Two vertical bars connected with lines.
Part of: Fernán Núñez collection.

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

History

Early works

Fiction

Specimens

Manuscripts

Spain

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Spanish

Roderick, King of the Visigoths, -711?

To 711

Institutional Record:

https://search.library.berkeley.edu/permalink/01UCS_BER/1thfj9n/alma991048183319706532

IIIF Manifest:

https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/nanna/proxy/iiif/manifest/229508/

Holding Institution:

University of California, Berkeley