University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 153

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DS ID:

DS1404

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 153

Title:

Draft of a dispatch to Ramon de Cordova, Viceroy of Sicily.

Author:

Ferdinand V, King of Spain, 1452-1516

Ferdinand II of Aragon WIKIDATA

Place:

Spain

Spain TGN

Date:

1507.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Spanish

Spanish WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 4 leaves : paper ; 298 x 220 mm

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Edges of paper brittle and split in places.
Ms. gathering.
Foliation: Paper, 4; [1-4]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script.
Origin: Written in Spain in 1507 (f. 1r).
Consists of two bifolia, the first forming f. 1-2 and the second forming f. 3-4.
Previously enclosed in a paper wrapper from the dealer Maggs Brothers Ltd. in London, which is now on file in the Library.
Unbound. Wrapped in a later paper wrapper containing two descriptions in English, possibly 19th century in date. The first description is preceded by the heading "No. 16." The second is signed "H. T.[?] Bell" and appears to have been written at the British Museum.
Sold by Maggs Brothers (London), 1960.
Appears once to have been in the possession of the British Museum.

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

dispatches

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Spanish

History

Italy--Sicily

Spain

1479-1516

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9915805643503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3qm0q/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania