The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 21720

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9795

Shelfmark:

mssHM 21720

Title:

Presentation to the Audiencia de los Confines

Author:

Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566

Bartolomé de Las Casas WIKIDATA

Place:

Honduras

Honduras TGN

Date:

1545

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Spanish

Spanish WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 2 : paper ; 220 x 316 mm

Former Owner(s):

Huth, Henry, 1815-1878

Henry Huth WIKIDATA

Huth, Alfred Henry, 1850-1910

Alfred Henry Huth WIKIDATA

Huth Library

Henry Huth WIKIDATA

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Presentation by Bartolomé de las Casas written in the hand of the author to be delivered before the Audiencia de los Confines in the town of Gracias a Dios (Honduras); dated 22 October 1545.
Span folios: ff. 1-2v. Support: Paper. Watermark(s): Main, roughly similar to Briquet 11136-11139. Layout: 1 bifolium; 54 long lines, unruled.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/15/2012.
On f. 2v, the note "Papeles tocantes al Padre Casas" in an eighteenth century hand; on f. 1, a small pencilled "c" in upper left corner. Sold in 1874 by Ellis Booksellers to Henry Huth; The Huth Library (1880) 5:1681-82 . Sale of Alfred Henry Huth, Sotheby's, 12 June 1911, lots 32-33, to Frank T. Sabin.

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

Spain

Honduras

Indians, Treatment of

New Spain

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862026

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:53317/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens