The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 21721

Metadata

DS ID:

DS9796

Shelfmark:

mssHM 21721

Title:

Letter to the Dominicans in Chiapa and Guatemala

Author:

Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566

Bartolomé de Las Casas WIKIDATA

Place:

Madrid

Madrid TGN

Date:

1563

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Spanish

Spanish WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 8 : paper ; 215 x 305 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:

Letter by Bartolomé de las Casas to the Dominicans in Chiapa and Guatemala written in 1563 in Madrid, probably at Santa María de Atocha in Madrid by a copyist, but signed by Bartolomé de las Casas.
Span folios: ff. 1-8v. Support: Paper. Watermark(s): Main similar to Briquet 11213 & 11214, Clermont-Ferrand 1565 & 1570. Layout: One gathering; 33-36 long lines, unruled.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/15/2012.
On f. 8v, "193...13," written in ink in a seventeenth century Spanish hand; in the upper left corner of f. 1, a small "k" in pencil; traces of a red ink stamp in the left margin of f. 1. 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

Indians, Treatment of

Dominicans

New Spain

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862027

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens