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Other Title:

Summa de las coronicas de Viscaya y algunos otros linages de aquel señorio, la qual yo Castilla rey de armas del susodicho emperador y rey nostro señor halle escritas en un quaderno, escrito ano M.CCCC.iiii.

Subjects:

Vizcaya (Spain) -- History -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Chronologies (lists)
Manuscripts, Spanish.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Spanish.

Summary:

Appears to be a brief history or chronology of the rulers of Vizcaya in Spain. There are numbers in the margin that appear to be dates; the earliest is 714 and the latest is 1492. This appears to have been physically removed from a larger volume.

Notes:

Ms. gathering.
Title from heading (p. 180). Zacour-Hirsch modernizes the spelling.
Pagination: Paper, 13 leaves; 180-190, [i], 191-203, [204]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 30-32 long lines.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Origin: Written in Spain, 16th century.
Paper is brittle. Edges worn. Much oxidation of ink; in several places the ink has eaten through the paper. The manuscript has become separated into two parts, between ff. 10 and 11.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Laurence Witten (New Haven, Conn.), 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 12).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 151

OCLC:

155962690