[Permission to Pedro de Anaya to erect a house]

Name:

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

Timespan:

Ferdinand and Isabella, 1479-1516

Date:

1498

Description:

Authority given to Pedro de Anaya by Ferdinand and Isabella to build a house in the village of Cabrillas (near Salamanca), provided the major of Ciudad Rodrigo would make certain that the said house was not fortified or capable of being converted into a stronghold for resistance. The Catholic Kings in their efforts to curb the powers of noblemen had prohibited the building of new castles or fortified homes. (This note and the item description taken from an unidentified dealer's or catalog description on file in the Library.)

Language:

Spanish; Castilian

Provenance:

Acquired, 1960.

Subject:

Anaya, Pedro; History

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Spanish; Manuscripts, Renaissance; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

3 leaves : paper; 310 x 220 mm

Geographic Subject:

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

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. bifolium.; The 17th-century note accompanying the document refers to it as Probision en favor de Pedro de Anaya.; Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).; Foliation: Paper, i (17th-century[?] paper) + 2; [i], [1-2]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.; Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand. 17th-century[?] notes (f. [i] recto) in cursive script by a second hand.; Origin: Written in Spain; 2 October 1498 (f. [i] recto).; Paper split and torn at the edges. Badly worn along a horizontal fold. Stains. Possibly some oxidation of ink.; Spanish.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 147