Jacobo de las Leyes — 14th century, first half; Spanish
MS. Holkham misc. 46
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Jacobo de las Leyes — 14th century, first half; Spanish
Shelfmark
MS. Holkham misc. 46
Associated place
Leon
Place of origin
Spanish
Date
14th century, first half
Language
Spanish
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
ii (paper) + 149 + ii (paper).
Hands
Gothic
Decoration
Diagrams. Fleuronneé initials. (Pächt and Alexander i. 880)
Spaces left blank for initials at beginnings of books.
Smaller initials blue with red and red with blue penwork.
In the lists of capitula titles of books are enclosed in circles of blue and red.
Binding
Typical Holkham binding of polished brown leather; the spine lettered in gilt 'DE LOS | ENSINAMENTOS | DE LAS LEES || M.S. | ESPAGNOL'; joints repaired.
Provenance
The Augustins déchaussés, Lyon.
17th century: inscibed 'Liber hic est forus iud. secundum ... []lationis Wotaldi (?) ... Ser Etoro qu[...]', mostly erased.
Don Luis Varona Lapata (?), 17th century: inscribed (but almost totally erased) 'Es de don Luis Varona Lapata (?)'
Signed 'A. G.' (fol. 6r, top margin).
Signed by 'T. Coke' (fol. 1r, lower margin); bookplate of 'THOMAS WILLIAM COKE'; formerly Norfolk, Holkham Hall, MS. 718.
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