Summa delas coronicas de Vizcaya y algunos otros linajes de aquel señorio, la qual yo Castilla Rey de armas del susodicho Emp[erador] y Rey n[ostro] s[eñor] halle escritas en un quaderno, escrito ano M.cccc.iiii ([corrected in later hand to] fortè anno MCCCCC.IIII)

Date:

1500

Description:

Appears to be a brief history or chronology of the rulers of Vizcaya in Spain. There are numbers in the margin that appear to be dates; the earliest is 714 and the latest is 1492. This appears to have been physically removed from a larger volume.

Language:

Spanish; Castilian

Provenance:

Sold by Laurence Witten (New Haven, Conn.), 1960.

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices; Chronologies (lists); Manuscripts, Spanish; Manuscripts, Renaissance

Physical Description:

13 leaves : paper; 315 x 215 (270 x 170) mm

Geographic Subject:

Vizcaya (Spain) -- History -- Early works to 1800

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. gathering.; Title from heading (p. 180). Zacour-Hirsch modernizes the spelling.; Pagination: Paper, 13 leaves; 180-190, [i], 191-203, [204]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper right recto.; Layout: Written in 30-32 long lines.; Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.; Origin: Written in Spain, 16th century.; Paper is brittle. Edges worn. Much oxidation of ink; in several places the ink has eaten through the paper. The manuscript has become separated into two parts, between ff. 10 and 11.; Spanish.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 151