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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3323

Shelfmark:

MS f Med.117

Title:

Carta ejecutoria, Sancho de Almazán and Juan de la Cámara vs. the Town Council of Arenas; in Spanish

Carta ejecutoria

Author:

Juana, la Loca, Queen of Castile, 1479-1555

Juana I of Castile WIKIDATA

Place:

Valladolid

Valladolid TGN

Date:

1514

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

spa

Spanish WIKIDATA

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment and paper

Parchment AAT

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 14 leaves : parchment and paper ; Section 1, 322 x 326 (264 x 190) mm, Section 2, 306 x 220 (260 x 185) mm bound to 33 cm

Former Owner(s):

H.P. Kraus (Firm)

H. P. Kraus (firm) WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. documents.
In Spanish.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Secundo folio: ...estado en posesion...
Section 1 (fols. 1-8) on parchment; Section 2 (fols 9-14) on paper
Collation: Parchment, paper, fol. i + 14 + i (front and rear flyleaves are a conjugate parchment bifolium); 18, 26 ; 18th-century arabic foliation in brown ink, skips fol. 9, 10 and 14, so reaches 11 on fol. 13; modern arabic foliation added to versos.
Layout: Section 1: 1 column, 53 lines, Section 2: 1 column, 33 lines.
Script: Section 1: written in a southern gothic semitextualis libraria in brown ink ; Section 2: fols. 9-14 written by two scribes in brown ink; fols. 11v-12 in a gothic cursive, fols. 12v-13 in a poor, hurried gothic cursive.
Decoration: 11-line opening initial on fol. 1v in gold and colors, 2-line initials in blue on gold on fol. 7v and 8.
Binding: 16th-century blindstamped and rolled panelled calf covers laid down on newer goatskin over boards. Pastedowns front and back from 13th-century Latin liturgical manuscript from Spain.
Origin: Written in 1514 in Valladolid, with later additions, possibly from Arenas.
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by BPL in 1943 from H.P. Kraus.
Call number: MS f Med.117.
Former call number: MS D.53.
Bibliography: Bourland, C. "The Case of Sancho de Almazán and Juan de la Cámara versus the Crown of Castile and the Town Council of Arenas," Smith College Studies in History XXIX (Northampton,1947).

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Spanish

Spain

Gothic scripts

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

illuminations (paintings)

Manuscript waste

Manuscripts, Medieval

Calf bindings

Massachusetts--Boston

Nobility

Spain--Castile

History

Taxation

Trials, litigation, etc.

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8444656

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/kp78mh310/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library