University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 167
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1442
- Shelfmark:
- Oversize Ms. Codex 167
- Title:
- Court record of proceedings in a lawsuit against Isabel Garcia.
- Spain. Chancillería de Granada
- Place:
- Granada
- Date:
- 1590.
- Language:
- Spanish
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 76 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 302 x 206 (240 x 129) mm bound to 306 x 210 mm
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Negative photostat of a description of the manuscript from M. L. Brown Books in Oakland, CA is on file in the library.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Foliation: Parchment, i + 74; [1-71], 72-74; near contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 34 long lines; ruled in blue ink.
Origin: Written in Granada in 1590 (f. 72v).
Decoration: Full page illumination of the name and title of Philip II (f. 2v); illuminated initials throughout, mainly in red, blue, gold and white (for example, f. 3r); calligraphic initials with strapwork ornamentation throughout (for example, f. 4r); notarial signets at the end (for example, f. 73r, 74r).
Binding: Contemporary blind-stamped calf, rebacked. Binding badly deteriorated; boards splitting; spine pulling apart; upper cover completely detached.
Script: Written in a humanistic book script by what appears to be a single hand, with the last ten lines of the court record proper interpolated, written in a different hand (f. 72v). Later notes in a less formal cursive script (f. 72v-74r).
Sold by M. L. Brown Books (Oakland, CA), 1968. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9915805853503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p35m0r/manifest
- Holding Institution:
