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
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.

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