Relacion de la manera et forma que tienen en España en su justicia civil y criminal, 1590s?

Name:

Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Date:

1590

Description:

Description of the Spanish civil and criminal courts, including judges and other personnel, salaries, and procedural notes such as activities of different days of the week in different courtrooms. Written in italic script in Spain, probably in the 1590s, based on the names of the people serving in various courts and the watermark (Briquet Croix latine 5688, Perpignan, 1596, f. 14). Four bifolia, arranged with one bifolium (f. 1, 8) as a wrapper around a subquire of 4 (f. 2-5) followed by a separate bifolium (f. 6-7), which may be a separate document although with related content (salaries of court personnel, partially repeating f. 1r but also including salaries for Inquisition personnel); modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto, 1-8.; El Consejo Real -- Chancillerias -- Presidente -- Oydores -- Los alcaldes -- Audiencia de Galicia -- Las gradas de Sevilla -- Corregidores y alcaldes mayores -- Alcaldes mayores -- Orden y nombre de los juezes de la Chancilleria de Valladolid -- Consejo Real -- Consejo de Indias -- Consejo de Ordines -- Consejo de Guerra -- Consejo de Estado de Camara -- Alcaldes de corte -- Consejo de Aragon -- Consejo de Italia -- Consejo de Camara -- Contadurias mayores de cuentas -- Consejo de resultas de cuentas -- Consejo de resultas de cuentas -- Consejo de collacion -- Consejo de hazienda -- Consejo de Presidentes -- Chancillerias -- Inquisicion General que siempre reside en la corte.

Language:

Spanish; Castilian

Provenance:

Sold by A. Gerits and Son (Diemen, Netherlands), catalog 146 (November 2017), number 80.

Relation:

The Henry Charles Lea Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366238; The Arthur H. Lea Library Endowment Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366237

Subject:

Courts -- Spain -- Early works to 1800; Procedure (Law) -- Spain -- Early works to 1800

Form/Genre:

Treatises; Manuscripts, Spanish -- 16th century; Manuscripts, Renaissance

Physical Description:

1 item (16 leaves) : paper; 308 x 215 mm.

Rights:

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

Notes:

In Spanish with two quotations in Latin (f. 3v).; Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Henry Charles Lea Fund.; Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Arthur H. Lea Library Endowment Fund.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Misc Mss Box 24 Folder 21

Collection:

Miscellaneous Manuscripts; Henry Charles Lea Fund; Arthur H. Lea Library Endowment Fund