Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Collection (Ferrari-Rouse), ca. 1198-1616

ORDINANCES OF THE CONFRATERNITY OF ST. JULIAN IN TERUEL, in Spanish. Spain (Teruel), 1440-1574 .

Identifier:
170/307.
Scope and content:

1) ff. 3-7v: [List of chapters with folio references] Capitulo primo de mantener la lampara a ii . . . Capitulo quel demandador sea tovido dar conto por cada domingo e cada paschua a xxiiii [followed by several additions:] Capitulo del conto . . . Capitulo como se deve meter en seguro lo de la companya, xxxxvi. f. 8r-v blank.

2) ff. i-xxivv: Esta es la ordenacion de la confradria de senyor sant Julian de la ciudat de Teruel, En el nonbre del nuestro senyor Ihesu Christo et de la virgen sancta Maria su madre et ha honor de todos los sanctos de Dios. En la era de mil et CCCC et XL aquesta hermandat et aquesta companya establecems los cofradres [over erasure: de senyor sant Bartholome] et de sant Julian de Teruel. En nombre et en advocacio de [over erasure: sant Bartholome; added between the lines: et de sant] Julian ffazemos et ordenamos nuestras posturas segunt que daqui adelant es scripto et ordenado a fieldat del senor Rey de Aragon et ha hondra de la ciudat de Teruel . . . por cada un dia que nolo fara.

3) ff. xxivv -xxxii; [8 added chapters] Capitulo del confradre qui se salliere de la companya. Item como a toda persona . . . y esto sin nenguna remission, ff. xxxiv and xxxiiv blank.

4) ff. xxxiii-xxxxiv : Capitulos de la ordenacion de la cambra que se faze en et spital de senyor sant Iulian et de senyor sant Bartholomme, Item primerament hordenamos . . . para necessidades del spital.

5) ff. xxxxii-xxxxvii: [Additional ordinances, including the mention f. xxxxiiiv of an annual procession to honor St. Quiteria] De esleyr officiales et del qui no querra acceptar, Item stablescemos ... la pena sobre dicha.

6) ff. xxxxviiv-xxxxix: A series of ordinances with the dates 1524, 1529, 1551, 1557, 1574.

Acquisition information:
Written at Teruel in 1440, with additions to 1574, for the confraternity of St. Julian. A stamp in ink on f. 1, “Angel San Gros N° 12—Zaragoza,” s. XVIII/XIX; a Spanish hand has written in ink on f. 1 “Codice original,” s. XIX. Purchased by UCLA in Spain in 1963.
Physical description:

Parchment, ff. 57; 193 Ă— 130 (120 Ă— 85) mm. 1-5 6 (-1) 7 (-l, -2). Catchwords only in the first section, horizontally in the middle of the lower margin. 13 long lines; the first section ruled in lead, then in ink. Written by seven fifteenth-century hands (1440 and after) in a rather square late Spanish gothic bookhand in liturgical style (littera textualis formata), (i) ff. 3-6, i-xxiv , (ii) ff. xxiv -xxvi , (iii) ff. xxvi -xxvii , xxviiii-xxxi, (iv) ff. xxvii -xxviii , (v) f. xxxii, (vi) ff. xxxiii-xxxxi , (vii) ff. xxxxii-xxxxvii, and several sixteenth-century cursive hands, ff. 6-7v and xxxxvii -xxxxviiii ; black ink for the main text, brown for the additions. On f. 1, 5-line initial parted in red and blue on red and violet flourishes, with marginal extensions to form a light border; 4-line initial in red, f. xxxxii; ff. i-xxiv, 2-line initials alternately in red and blue and initials in the text slashed with yellow; rubrics in red; ff. xxxxii-xxxxvii, red paragraph marks; ff. i-xxiv foliated by the scribe in red roman numerals, continued in brown ink on ff. xxv-xxxxviiii. Fifteenth- and sixteenth-century notes inside the back cover. On f. 2, a seventeenth- or eighteenth-century coat of arms in pen and ink, with the names and symbols of St. Bartholomew, St. Julianus, St. Quiteria.

Only the spine of a contemporary binding in limp parchment survives.

Note:

Secundo folio: [Chapter list, f. 4] fijo dexare; [Text, f. ii] primerament prometemos.

Fig. 16

Access and use

Location of this collection:
A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
Contact:
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