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Add MS 19271
- Record Id:
- 032-002095908
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002095908
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000041.0x0000d4
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100162924284.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 19271
- Title:
- Articles of agreement between Philip IV, King of Spain, and Charles, Prince of Wales, for the projected marriage of the Prince with Maria, Infanta of Spain, dated Madrid, 4 Aug 1623, with ratification 7 Sep 1623
- Scope & Content:
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Articles of agreement between Philip IV, King of Spain, and Charles, Prince of Wales, for the projected Marriage of the Prince with Maria, Infanta of Spain, dated Madrid, 4 Aug 1623, with ratification 7 Sep 1623. In Latin. Both the articles and the ratification carry the signatures and seals of the King and the Prince, and the signatures of their secretaries, Juan de Çiriça and Simon Digby.
f.[i] has pasted in notes in French by a previous 19th-century owner, Alcide Donnadieu.
Contents:
f. 1r: Title-page: 'Instrumentum Capitluationum inter Serenissimum Regem Catholicum & Serenissum Walliae Principem, super futuro Matrimonio inter eundum Walliae Principem & Serenissimam Mariam Ingantem Hispaniarum.'
ff. 2r-7r: Articles of agreement, Madrid, 4 Aug 1623. Signed by, and with seals of, King Philip IV and Prince Charles and also signed by Juan de Çiriça and Simon Digby.
ff. 7r-v: Witnesses to the Articles, headed by the Count of Olivares on the Spanish side and George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, on the English. Attested and signed by Juan de Çiriça and Simon Digby.
ff. 7v-8r: Ratification, Madrid, 7 Sep 1623. Signed by, and with seals of, King Philip IV and Prince Charles and also signed by Juan de Çiriça and Simon Digby.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002095908
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002095908
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100162924284.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1623
- End Date:
- 1623
- Date Range:
- 4 Aug 1623-7 Sep 1623
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Spain.
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 310mm x 215 mm (writing area: 260mm x 170mm).
Foliation: ff. [i] + 8 (f. [i] is a flyleaf with a note by a previous owner pasted on; there is a further flyleaf at the back).
Script: Early 17th-century secretary hand.
Binding: Post-1600.
Red leather; gilt tooling outside and inside of both front and back covers, gilt-stamped 19th-century royal coat of arms on front cover; watered blue velvet panels on inside of front and back covers. (This seems to the binding in which the document came to the British Library; Catalogue ... of m. Donnadieu, p. 27, described the document as 'in beautiful preservation, enclosed in a handsome crimson morocco case, watered silk lining').
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Spain.
Provenance:
Captain W. West in 1845 when it was bought for 1800 francs by Alcide Donnadieu (c. 1791-1861).
Purchased by the British Museum from Messrs Boone, 11 Dec 1852 (lot 165 from Donnadieu's sale).
(Custodial history from ff. [i] and 1).
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to Manuscripts in the British Museum, MDCCCXLVIII-MDCCCLIII (London: British Museum, 1868), p. 212.
Catalogue of Highly Interesting and Valuable Autograph Letters and Historical Manscripts, being the Well Known Collection of Monsr. A. Donnadieu (London: Messrs Puttick and Simpson, 1851), p. 27.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)