Ms. codex. In Spanish. Title derived by cataloger. Text begins on verso of fol. 1, with contemporary cursive notations and signatures on recto. Additional signatures(?) at end of text on fol. 25v. Secundo folio: ...[di]chas curaldes villas y lugares... Collation: Parchment, fol. 26 ; 126 ; modern pencil foliation in lower corner. Layout: 1 column, 40 lines; bounding and writing lines in red ink. Script: Written in Southern textualis formata in brown ink. Cursive inscriptions on fol. 1; 3 lines of cursive follow end of text. Decoration: On fol. 1 at top the divine monogram flanked by putti above the historiated and illuminated letter D containing portraits of the seated queen Juana and her son Charles V (Ist of Spain); in left margin is the royal coat of arms and in lower margin flanked by angels, that (presumably) of the litigant. On fol. 22 a historiated 10-line initial H showa 3 officials seated above the gilt... Binding: Single gathering, stiched through fold, through which also is drawn the original seal cord of yellow, white, red, and green silk (broken with lead seal missing), augmented with later braided hemp cord which holds gathering into later semi-limp vellum covers with hemp fore-edge ties. Upper corners of most leaves chewed or burned away, not affecting text. Origin: Written in Granada in 1517. Immediate source of acquisition: purchased from Laurence Witten (in 1953?) Call number: MS f Sp.25.
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