University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 1642

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DS ID:

DS1438

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 1642

Title:

De las doze cargas.

Author:

Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566

Bartolomé de Las Casas WIKIDATA

Place:

Valladolid?, Spain

Valladolid TGN

Date:

[circa 1551]

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Spanish

Spanish WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 21 leaves : paper ; 308 x 215 (276 x 165-170) mm bound to 320 x 230 mm

Former Owner(s):

Dechert, Robert

Robert Dechert WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from later paper wrapper (f. ii recto).
Script: Written in cursive script by Bartolomé de las Casas (signature, f. 25r)
Binding: Velvet with remains of two pairs of fabric ties and marbled endpapers; also two later paper wrappers, the first with the title of another work (De los quatro tercios, ò dos cargas) and the second with the title of this work.
Fragile due to ink oxidation; some early repairs; interleaved with blank early modern paper.
Layout: Written in 42-44 long lines.
Collation: Paper, ii + 21 + ii; 1-2² 3¹ 4-11²; 5-8, [9], 10-25, contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Origin: Written in Spain, probably Valladolid, circa 1551 (date of the end of the Valladolid junta).
Gift of Robert Dechert, before 1975.

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Spanish

polemics

Colonies

Latin America

Sepúlveda, Juan Ginés de, 1490-1573

Administration

Missions

Spain

Indians, Treatment of

America

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9962340833503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p36w96866/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania