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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4584

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 245

Title:

Fuero real (Royal municipal code)

Fuero real

Author:

Alfonso X, King of Castile and Leon, 1221-1284

Alfonso X of Castile and Leon WIKIDATA

Place:

Northern Spain

Spain TGN

Date:

1255-1299

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Castilian, Spanish

Spanish WIKIDATA

Material:

Parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: ii+92+ii; 247 x 178 mm bound to 259 x 188 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827

Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford WIKIDATA

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

H.P. Kraus (Firm)

H. P. Kraus (firm) WIKIDATA

Note:

Unstable binding, some loose leaves
Last folio of text lacking
Script has Iberian characteristics
Marginal glosses in a fourteenth-century cursive hand
Binding: Eighteenth-century, Spanish, mottled calf over pasteboards, marbled endpapers; gold tooled panels on spine, inscribed FUERO DE BURGOS; Phillipps label, no. 6736, on spine
Layout: One column of twenty-six lines, hard point ruling, prickings in inner and outer margins visible, first line written above top line: written area: 173 x 126 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis
Decoration: Four large decorated initials, flourished initials in red, blue, and green ink throughout; some marginal notation throughout
Related resource: Alfonso X of Castile, Fuero de Burgos. European MS 245, Philadelphia Free Library, microfiche facsimile and commentary, edited by Ivy A. Corfis, Spanish Legal Texts 1 (Madison: The Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, 1987)
Provenance: Frederick North, Earl of Guilford (1766-1827); Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), his no. 6736; his sale London, Sotheby's, November 24, 1966, lot. no. 51; H. P. Krauss (book dealer); The Free Library of Philadelphia, purchased 1968 with Gratz Fund

Keyword:

Law

Thirteenth century

Spain

Spanish (culture or style)

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_245.html

IIIF Manifest:

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Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia