[Draft of a dispatch to Ramon de Cordova, Viceroy of Sicily]

Name:

Ferdinand V, King of Spain, 1452-1516

Timespan:

Ferdinand and Isabella, 1479-1516

Date:

1507

Description:

In the dispatch Ferdinand discusses policies to be pursued in Italy.

Language:

Spanish; Castilian

Provenance:

Appears once to have been in the possession of the British Museum.; Sold by Maggs Brothers (London), 1960.

Subject:

History

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices; Dispatches; Manuscripts, Spanish; Manuscripts, Renaissance

Physical Description:

4 leaves : paper; 298 x 220 mm

Geographic Subject:

Spain -- History -- Ferdinand and Isabella, 1479-1516; Spain; Sicily (Italy) -- History

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. gathering.; Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).; Foliation: Paper, 4; [1-4]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.; Script: Written in a cursive script.; Origin: Written in Spain in 1507 (f. 1r).; Consists of two bifolia, the first forming f. 1-2 and the second forming f. 3-4.; Unbound. Wrapped in a later paper wrapper containing two descriptions in English, possibly 19th century in date. The first description is preceded by the heading "No. 16." The second is signed "H. T.[?] Bell" and appears to have been written at the British Museum.; Previously enclosed in a paper wrapper from the dealer Maggs Brothers Ltd. in London, which is now on file in the Library.; Edges of paper brittle and split in places.; Spanish.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 153