University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 149

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1379

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 149

Title:

Collection of documents.

Author:

Peres, Gonzalo, de Cartagena

Gonzalo Peres de Cartagena WIKIDATA

Place:

Arroya

Castile-Leon TGN

Date:

1517-1519.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Spanish

Spanish WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 28 leaves : parchment, illustrations ; 310 x 221 mm

Note:

Overall title supplied by cataloger. Titles of individual sections taken from Zacour-Hirsch. Descriptive title on f. 1r is hard to read.
According to a modern notation on the paper wrapper that once enclosed the manuscript (now on file in the Library), Gonzalo Peres de Cartagena was a favorite official of Queen Isabella and was a descendent of the famous Jewish convert, Paul of Burgos.
Ms. codex.
Foliation: Parchment, 28; 1-28; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Folio missing between f. 9-10 and f. 10-11.
Script: Written in various cursive and formal book script scripts by several different hands. Folios 11r-23v (text of the testament) are in a more formal minuscule hand; these pages have been lined in ink. Includes marginalia and other miscellaneous notations.
Sewn in two quires; no cover. The two quires have almost completely separated from each other.
Origin: Written in Arroya (Spain), near Burgos; 1517-1519.
Decoration: Rubrication in red and blue (f. 11r-22v). Illustration of a manicule, in green, white and brown (f. 16v).
Sold by H. P. Kraus (New York, N. Y.), 1959.

Keyword:

wills

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Spanish

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Spain

History

1516-1556

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9915805583503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3ps85/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania