Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 245
Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS4584
- Shelfmark:
- Lewis E 245
- Title:
- Fuero real (Royal municipal code)
- Author:
- Alfonso X, King of Castile and Leon, 1221-1284
- Place:
- Northern Spain
- Date:
- 1255-1299
- Language:
- Castilian, Spanish
- 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
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872
H.P. Kraus (Firm)
- 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:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_245.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_245/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
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