- Creator:
- Enríquez del Castillo, Diego, 1431-1503?
- Published / Created:
- [between 1500 and 1525]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 27
- Image Count:
- 502
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Diego Enriquez del Castillo (1433-1504?), Chronicle of King Enrique IV of Castile (1425-74). With the Life of Don Juan Pacheco, Marques de Villena; Decretal texts concerning behavior of clerics; and Brief law text in Latin.
- Description:
- Binding: Sixteenth century, Spain. Sewn on three tawed skin, slit straps, now broken, laced into channels in wooden boards. One plain wound endband is sewn on a tawed skin core, the other endband was added later. Covered in brown calf blind-tooled with concentric frames, the central panel and alternate frames filled with rope interlace. The layout of the design is the same on both boards but different small tools are used in the central panels. Spine: four fillets outlining the supports and in the center of the panels a small rope tool in the center of the compartments so formed. Two fastenings, the catches on the lower board, the clasp straps later additions. The spine is mended at head and tail; some corners repaired., In Spanish., Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1955 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written by several scribes in late Spanish bookhands with cursive and humanistic features. Some headings in large gothic display script., and Watermarks: unidentified hand.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Castile (Spain)--History--Henry IV, 1454-1474
- Subject (Name):
- Enríquez del Castillo, Diego,--1431-1503? and Henry--IV,--King of Castile and Leon,--1425-1474
- Subject (Topic):
- Biography--Middle Ages, 500-1500, Canon law--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Spanish literature--To 1500
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Cronica del Rey don Enrique IV.
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