Item Summary

Ms. codex.,Notebook recording births and baptisms kept in Guatemala City by two people, one unidentified (1570s-1620s), and Don Diego de Salasar Monsalbe (1629-1638). Mentions "santa yglesia catedral" and "Frai Domingo de Rosales."

Descriptive Information

Title
[Notebook recording births and baptisms, 1571-1638].
Call Number
Princeton MS. 226
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcvt150z57d
Publisher
[Spain], [between 1570 and 1638]
Language
Spanish
Date Created
1571-1638
Extent
16 leaves : coated paper ; 139 x 97 mm bound to 148 x 105 mm.
Source Acquisition
Acc. no. AM 2003-73.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Coated paper ; fol. ii (uncoated) + 16 + ii (uncoated) ; modern foliation in pencil.
Layout: Number of lines per page varies.
Description: Written in iron-gall ink on an erasable notebook made in 1575, probably Antwerp ; some entries faded to near illegibility.
Binding Note
Dutch wallet binding of panel-stamped alum-tawed pigskin. Central design is two-headed, crowned eagle. Two metal clasps (only one clasp extant).
Dutch wallet binding of panel-stamped alum-tawed pigskin, with one metal clasp. In tan cloth slipcase.

Discovery Information

Subject
Registers of births, etc—Spain—Early works to 1800
Baptismal records—Spain—Early works to 1800
Church records and registers—Spain—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Spanish—New Jersey—Princeton
baptismal registers
birth registers
Flap bindings
Pigskin bindings
Metal clasps
Coated papers
Blind tooled bindings
Armorial bindings

Physical Characteristics

File Count
44

Institutional Information

Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/233fef79-bfa7-4acd-8e5a-858d1871241e/manifest