Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Fuero real (Royal municipal code)

Authors

• Alfonso X, King of Castile and Leon, 1221-1284 (https://viaf.org/viaf/66476694)

Other related names

• North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86067027.html)
• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner (https://viaf.org/viaf/73979081)
• H.P. Kraus (Firm), former owner (https://viaf.org/viaf/104223265)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 245
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1550310

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Castilian, Spanish

Origin

Place

Northern Spain

Summary

This manuscript is a copy of the Fuero Real, the legal code promulgated by Alfonso X during his reign in the second half of the thirteenth century. Written in northern Spain during his reign, the text is written in a round textualis script and decorated throughout with colored initials. The four book divisions are marked with large colored initials, and a table of contents at the beginning of the volume lists the titles within each book. A fourteenth-century reader added marginal glosses in cursive script.

Notes

• Unstable binding, some loose leaves
   
• Last folio of text lacking
   
• Script has Iberian characteristics
   
• Marginal glosses in a fourteenth-century cursive hand
   

Extent

Ii+92+ii; 247 x 178 mm bound to 259 x 188 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1 (3, +3), 2-7 (8), 8 (4), 9 (10), 10-12 (8), 13 (3, +1)

Signatures

Vertical catchwords in ink, lower right last verso

Support

Parchment

Binding

Eighteenth-century, Spanish, mottled calf over pasteboards, marbled endpapers; gold tooled panels on spine, inscribed FUERO DE BURGOS; Phillipps label, no. 6736, on spine

Layout

One column of twenty-six lines, hard point ruling, prickings in inner and outer margins visible, first line written above top line: written area: 173 x 126 mm

Decoration

Four large decorated initials, flourished initials in red, blue, and green ink throughout; some marginal notation throughout

Script

Gothic--textualis

Provenance

• Frederick North, Earl of Guilford (1766-1827); Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), his no. 6736; his sale London, Sotheby's, November 24, 1966, lot. no. 51; H. P. Krauss (book dealer); The Free Library of Philadelphia, purchased 1968 with Gratz Fund
   

Related resources

• Alfonso X of Castile, Fuero de Burgos. European MS 245, Philadelphia Free Library, microfiche facsimile and commentary, edited by Ivy A. Corfis, Spanish Legal Texts 1 (Madison: The Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, 1987)

Keywords

• Spain
• 13th century
• Spanish
• Legal

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Title lists for Books I-IV; incipit: Estos son los titulos del libro primero... [fol. 2r]; explicit: XXV Titulo del pecio de los navios [fol. 3v]
• fol. 4r — Fuero Real, Book I, "Este es el libro de los fueros que dio el rey don alffonsso a la noble cibdat de burgos que es cabeca de castiella"; incipit: En el nombre de dios. Amen. Por que los coraçones de los omnes son departidos... [fol. 4r]; explicit: ... demandar a aq[ue]l q[ue] la enageno o aq[ue]l q[ue] la recibio. [fol. 18r]
• fol. 18v — Fuero Real, Book II; incipit: Todo omnes que morare... [fol. 18v]; explicit: ... denostare o abiltare a aquel que se alça de so myzio aya esta pena sobre dicha. [fol. 35v]
• fol. 36r — Fuero Real, Book III; incipit: Establecemos [y] mandamos q[ue] todos los casamyentos ... [fol. 36r]; explicit: ... sea apoderado del cuerpo del debdor. assi cuemo mandala ley. [fol. 65v]
• fol. 66r — Fuero Real, Book IV; incipit: Ningun [ch]r[ist]iano no[n] sea osado de tornarse iudio, nin moro ... [fol. 66r]; explicit: ...la muerte qua q[ua]nto tomare enterguelo a aq[ue]l a q[ui] lo ma[n]do… [fol. 92v]

Decorations

• fol. 4r — Decorated initial E
• fol. 4r — Decorated initial P
• fol. 18v — Decorated initial T
• fol. 32v — Decorated initial P
• fol. 36r — Decorated initial E
• fol. 66r — Decorated initial N
• fol. 92v — Decorated initial P