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Title

Historical miscellany

Authors

• Requesens family

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1571
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9948260873503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155904345
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4826087

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin, with passages in Spanish, Italian, Sicilian dialect, and Catalan

Origin

Date

1463-1660

Place

Sicily

Summary

Miscellany of documents (some original, some 17th-century copies) pertaining to the services rendered by the various members of the Requesens family (Bernardo, Berengario, Giuseppe, and Antonio in particular) to the Spanish crown, covering the years 1463-1660. Includes correspondence and reports concerning a variety of occasions when the Requesens fought for Spain against the Turkish army, especially in Sicily and other areas of Southern Italy, between the 16th and the 17th century. Notarial documents, some bearing official seals, describe privileges and investitures granted upon the Requesens by the Spanish monarchs. The volume also contains a very detailed table of contents in Italian (f. 2r-5r).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written on various sizes of paper, some with seals and remainders of seals.
   
• Forms part of: Villafiorita Ducal Records.
   

Watermark

Large, unidentified watermark containing a shield, a crown, and the word LIBERTAS; and a large, unidentified watermark containing a bird, flowers, and the letters CC.

Extent

100 leaves : various sizes bound to 323 x 227 mm

Foliation

Paper, 100; [1-100]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Numerous pages present non-consecutive, sometimes crossed out, contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Remnants of contemporary vellum over paper boards. Vellum now only on lower cover.

Script

Written in cursive script by multiple hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Kurt L. Schwarz (Beverly Hills, Calif.).
   

Subjects topical

• Nobility--Spain--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Notarial documents
• Manuscripts, Catalan--16th century
• Manuscripts, Italian--15th century
• Manuscripts, Italian--16th century
• Manuscripts, Italian--17th century
• Manuscripts, Spanish--16th century
• Manuscripts, Spanish--17th century
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Latin--16th century
• Manuscripts, Latin--17th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• Manuscripts, European

Keywords

• 15th century
• 16th century
• 17th century
• Catalan
• Paper
• Seals
• Spanish
• Legal
• Italy
• Correspondence

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