Details

Subjects:

Spain -- History -- Charles I, 1516-1556.
Spain.
History.
Milan (Italy) -- History -- To 1535.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Spanish.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

In Spanish.

Summary:

Letter from Emperor Charles V to Francesco Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan, on the conditions in Italy. Charles is writing as King of Spain. Letter is signed "Carolus."

Notes:

Madrid; 26 October 1553.
Six lines of text on recto, address on verso.
Originally contained a seal, which has been removed.
Some oxidation of ink. There is a tear where the seal was removed.

Penn Provenance:

Acquired 1962.

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. 143 (Ms. Spanish 36).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 105.

Contributor:

Sforza, Francesco Maria, Duke of Milan.

OCLC:

213479630