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Title

De las doze cargas.

Authors

• Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566

Other related names

• Dechert, Robert, former owner

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1642
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962340833503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/883214806
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/9962340833503681

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Spanish

Origin

Date

circa 1551

Place

Valladolid?, Spain

Summary

The responses of Bartolomé de las Casas to Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda's twelve refutations following the junta of Valladolid. The junta was convened by Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in 1550 and 1551 to consider the justice of the wars being waged by Spain in the western hemisphere, with Sepúlveda arguing that force could be used against the Native Americans and they could be enslaved, and Las Casas arguing that the Native Americans were capable of reason and should not be coerced or enslaved. The first four leaves, containing the first two responses and the beginning of the third response, are lacking. Las Casas published both Sepúlveda's objections and his own responses in his work titled Aqui se contiene una disputa o controversia: entre el obispo don fray Bartholome de las Casas, o Casaus, obispo que fue de la ciudad Real de Chiapa que es en las Indias, parte dela nueva España: y el doctor Gínes de Sepulveda Coronista del Emperador nuestro señor ... (Seville, 1552).

Notes

• Title from later paper wrapper (f. ii recto).
   
• Fragile due to ink oxidation; some early repairs; interleaved with blank early modern paper.
   

Extent

21 leaves : 308 x 215 (276 x 165-170) mm bound to 320 x 230 mm

Collation

Paper, ii + 21 + ii; 1-2² 3¹ 4-11²; 5-8, [9], 10-25, contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Velvet with remains of two pairs of fabric ties and marbled endpapers; also two later paper wrappers, the first with the title of another work (De los quatro tercios, ò dos cargas) and the second with the title of this work.

Layout

Written in 42-44 long lines.

Script

Written in cursive script by Bartolomé de las Casas (signature, f. 25r)

Provenance

• Gift of Robert Dechert, before 1975.
   

Subjects topical

• Missions--Latin America--Early works to 1800
• Indians, Treatment of--Latin America--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Polemics
• Manuscripts, Spanish--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 16th century
• Spain
• Spanish
• Paper
• Chronicle

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