Details

Subjects:

Alfonso X, King of Castile and Leon, 1221-1284.
Andalusia (Spain) -- History -- 13th century -- Sources.
Ecija (Spain) -- History -- 13th century -- Sources.
Spain -- History -- 711-1516 -- Sources.
Spain.
History.

Form/Genre:

Sources.
Codices (bound manuscripts)
Manuscripts, Spanish.
Manuscripts, Medieval.

Language:

Spanish.

Summary:

Two lists containing the names of persons who received land by order of the king in the neighborhood of Écija in Andalusia which was taken from the Moros ("Moors") in 1240. Among them are men and women of the royal court, such as ladies in waiting of the queen (f. 1v). The first list (f. 1-11) lists property holders divided by villages, with red paragraph marks at the beginning of descriptions of villages alternating with blue paragraph marks at the beginning of the names of people who received land from that village, with the land area measured in yugadas. The second list was made by order of King Alfonso X and his queen, Violante (f. 14-17). Before it is inserted a document (f. 12) dated "era de mill ccc xx vii," the old Spanish date corresponding to the year 1289. This states that this copy was made from a charter of Alfonso X given at Seville, 2 May, 1282. Folio 13 is blank. (According to Zacour-Hirsch, this list is apparently a version of that of 1263.).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from f. [i]r (before f. 1), in the hand of a registrar of the 17th century.
Description taken from Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue and from unidentified dealer's description on file in Library.
Collation: Paper, i + 17 + i; 1¹¹ 2⁶; 1-17; contemporary roman numerals, upper right recto. The first and last leaf are endleaves added when the manuscript was bound in the 17th century.
Script: Written in a cursive document script by two different hands.
Decoration: Partly rubricated in red and blue; 10-line initial P with penwork in brown ink (f. 14r)
Binding: Limp vellum, 17th century.
Origin: Written in Écija (Andalusia) in the late 13th century.
Soft, thick rag paper, very fragile; edges of paper frayed, worn and split; the leaves have been folded vertically and there is a hole through most of them in the center, causing some insignificant loss of text.

Penn Provenance:

Acquired, 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. 138 (Ms. Spanish 14).
Varela y Escobar, Manuel. Bosquejo histórico de la ciudad de Écija. [Écija, 1892], pp. 60-61. According to the Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue, he cites a property list of 1263, of which the second list in the present manuscript (f. 14-17) is probably a version.

Cited as:

UPenn Oversize Ms. Codex 146.

OCLC:

155962674