Details

Subjects:

Spain -- History -- Ferdinand and Isabella, 1479-1516.
Spain.
History.
Sicily (Italy) -- History.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Dispatches.
Manuscripts, Spanish.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Spanish.

Summary:

In the dispatch Ferdinand discusses policies to be pursued in Italy.

Notes:

Ms. gathering.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Foliation: Paper, 4; [1-4]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script.
Origin: Written in Spain in 1507 (f. 1r).
Consists of two bifolia, the first forming f. 1-2 and the second forming f. 3-4.
Unbound. Wrapped in a later paper wrapper containing two descriptions in English, possibly 19th century in date. The first description is preceded by the heading "No. 16." The second is signed "H. T.[?] Bell" and appears to have been written at the British Museum.
Previously enclosed in a paper wrapper from the dealer Maggs Brothers Ltd. in London, which is now on file in the Library.
Edges of paper brittle and split in places.

Penn Provenance:

Appears once to have been in the possession of the British Museum.
Sold by Maggs Brothers (London), 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. 139 (Ms. Spanish 16).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 153

OCLC:

155962692