[Permission to Pedro de Anaya to erect a house].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Ferdinand V, King of Spain, 1452-1516.

Contributor:

Isabella I, Queen of Spain, 1451-1504.

Language:

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Anaya, Pedro.

Spain--History--Ferdinand and Isabella, 1479-1516.

Spain.

History.

Genre:

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Acquired, 1960.

Physical Description:

3 leaves : paper ; 310 x 220 mm

Production:

[Spain], 1498.

Other Title:

Probisión.

Language Note:

Spanish.

Summary:

Authority given to Pedro de Anaya by Ferdinand and Isabella to build a house in the village of Cabrillas (near Salamanca), provided the major of Ciudad Rodrigo would make certain that the said house was not fortified or capable of being converted into a stronghold for resistance. The Catholic Kings in their efforts to curb the powers of noblemen had prohibited the building of new castles or fortified homes. (This note and the item description taken from an unidentified dealer's or catalog description on file in the Library.)

Notes:

Ms. bifolium.

The 17th-century note accompanying the document refers to it as Probision en favor de Pedro de Anaya.

Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).

Foliation: Paper, i (17th-century[?] paper) + 2; [i], [1-2]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand. 17th-century[?] notes (f. [i] recto) in cursive script by a second hand.

Origin: Written in Spain; 2 October 1498 (f. [i] recto).

Paper split and torn at the edges. Badly worn along a horizontal fold. Stains. Possibly some oxidation of ink.

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 9).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 147.

OCLC:

155962679

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