[Commission]

Contributor:

Quesada, Fernando de (addressee)

Name:

Ferdinand V, King of Spain, 1452-1516; Isabella I, Queen of Spain, 1451-1504

Timespan:

Ferdinand and Isabella, 1479-1516

Date:

1501

Description:

Commission from Ferdinand and Isabella to Fernando de Quesada to inspect houses capable of defense, dated 23 Mar. 1501. With a summary in a later hand (f. [i] recto).

Language:

Spanish; Castilian

Provenance:

Sold by Ivan Volkoff (Pasadena, Calif.), 1960.

Subject:

History

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); codices (bound manuscripts); Manuscripts, Renaissance

Physical Description:

15 leaves : paper; 297 x 220 mm

Geographic Subject:

Spain -- History -- Ferdinand and Isabella, 1479-1516; Spain

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).; Foliation: Paper, i (17th-century paper) + 14; [1-14]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.; Layout: Written in 33 long lines.; Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand, with f. [i] recto written in a later (17th-century?) cursive script.; Origin: Written in Granada[?], 23 March 1501.; Folio [i] completely detached. Paper split and torn at edges. Some stains.; Spanish.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 148