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Item Summary
Transcript of Spanish legal proceedings and documents pertaining to Gonzalo de Avalos, a native of Úbeda (Jaén Province, Andalucia, Spain), and son of the Regidor Pedro de Avalos. Gonzalo de Avalos was living in Mechuacan, Nueva España (now Michoacán, Mexico) and was represented in Úbeda by his brother Alonso de Avalos. Followed by notarial attestations given in Úbeda, 1567 (fols. 75v-77r).
Descriptive Information
- Title
- [Legal proceedings and documents, 1567]
- Call Number
- Garrett MS. 166
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcjq086049b
- Publisher
- [Úbeda, Spain], [1567]
- Language
- Spanish
- Date Created
- 1567
- Extent
- 77 leaves : paper ; 305 x 208 (240-255 x 155-160) mm bound to 309 x 220 mm + 1 seal
- Provenance
- Unknown early provenance. An early modern note on fol. ii recto reads "... Fernandez de Molina Daualos y Figueroa." Robert Garrett of Baltimore, Maryland, Class of 1897, purchased the manuscript in 1930 from Antigua Librería Robredo de José Porrúa e Hijos. Garrett's gift to the Princeton University Library, 1942.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift of Robert Garrett, 1942.
- References
- Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, page 381.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Incipit: "En la muy noble e muy leal ciudad de vbeda quatro dias del mes de nouiembre año del nacimento de nuestro saluador ihesu christo de mille-quinientos y sesenta y siete años ..."
- Ms. documents.
- Title devised by cataloger.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. ii + 77 + ii ; modern foliation in pencil.
- Layout: 36-38 long lines per page.
- Description: Watermarks (man dressed as a pilgrim above the letters "PA"; cross).
- Accompanying materials: With 1 seal (red, fragmentary), applied.
- Binding Note
- Contemporaneous binding. Spain, 16th century. Red velvet over pasteboard. Formerly with two pairs of red silk ties.
Discovery Information
- Subject
- Avalos, Gonzalo de active 16th century—Trials, litigation, etc
- Justice, Administration of—Spain—Ubeda (Jaén)—Early works to 1800
- Justice, Administration of—Spain—Ubeda (Jaén)—History—16th century—Sources
- Ubeda (Jaén, Spain)—Social conditions—16th century—Sources
- Manuscripts, Spanish—New Jersey—Princeton
- Seals
- Watermarks
- Velvet bindings
- Ties
- Trial and arbitral proceedings
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 168
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
- IIIF Manifest URL
-
https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/665d4b89-2a8a-4a77-b1ca-feed1924f2b1/manifest




























