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<dl><dd>Ms. codex</dd>
<dd>Language: Spanish</dd>
<dd>Title from front of original vellum wrapper</dd>
<dd>Collation: Parchment codex, fol. 26 ; 1²⁶ (single quire of 26 leaves (13 nested bifolia)).</dd>
<dd>Layout: 1 column, 30 to 38 long lines, bounding and writing lines in red ink; bounding lines extend to top and bottom edges; some sections in double-ruled borders with neither writing nor bounding lines</dd>
<dd>Script: Written in a rotunda hand in black ink; 4 to 9 different marks (notary rubrics, etc.) are present in the lower margin of each leaf</dd>
<dd>Decoration: Calligraphic initials on fols. 1, 2, 4, 5, and 22.</dd>
<dd>Binding: In modern, tan library cloth. The original vellum wrappers (counted as leaves in the collation statement above) are bound-in</dd>
<dd>Origin: Engrossed in Madrid on June 25, 1625: "... librada de los nuestros concertadores y escriuanos mayores de los nuestros previlegios y confirmaciones y de otros oficiales de n[uest]ra casa. Dada en la villa de Madrid (seis) dias del mes de (Junio) ano del nacimiento de nuestro saluador Jesu [Christo] de mill y seis cientos y veynte y cinco y en el quinto de nuestro Reynado." (from leaf [25])</dd>
<dd>Provenance: Given to the Library by Charles Francis Adams on Dec. 17, 1896</dd>
<dd>A royal privilege granting exemption from various forms of taxation ("portazgos" and "pechos") to the Castle of Las Penas de San Pedro</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Taxation; Castles</div>
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<dl><dd>Spain. Sovereign (1621-1665 : Philip IV)</dd>
<dd>Corrilla, Mathias Fernandez, autographer</dd>
<dd>Corella, Miguel, autographer</dd>
<dd>Contreras, Pedro de, autographer</dd>
<dd>Leon, Antonio de, autographer</dd>
<dd>Galar, Joan de, autographer</dd>
<dd>Adams, Charles Francis, 1835-1915, former owner</dd></dl></div>
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