Details

Subjects:

Albarez, Alonso, de Toledo.
Cervera (Spain).
Spain -- History -- Philip III, 1598-1621.
Spain.
History.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Letters patent.
Notarial documents.
Seals (artifacts)
Manuscripts, Spanish.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Spanish.

Summary:

Decision in favor of Alonso Albarez [i.e., Alvarez?] de Toledo in his lawsuit against the Crown (Philip III) and the council of Cervera, concerning the ownership of the town. Notarial signature and armorial wax seal under paper (f. 22r).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 22 + i (contemporary paper); [1-22]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Binding: Contemporary limp vellum; blue and green cloth ties. Upper cover partially destroyed by what appears to be rodent damage; some oxidation of ink.
Origin: Written in Cervera, Spain[?], 1610 (f. 22r).

Penn Provenance:

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

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 137 (Ms. Spanish 7).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 145

OCLC:

155962669