Marston MS 27     Spain, s. XVI 1/4
Diego Enriquez del Castillo, Cronica del Rey don Enrique IV

1. f. 1r [Later title:] Cronica del Rey Don Enrique IIII por diego 
enriquez.  f. 1v blank; ff. 2r-7v [table:] Tabla: capitulo primero de 
la vida y filosomia [sic] del Rey. ffo. iij...capitulo clxix de como 
tornado el Rey a madrid le crecio la dolencia y murio. ffo. cc.  

2. ff. 8r-9r  Don juan pacheco marques de villena maestre de Santiago...
y murio en grand prosperidad dhedad de cinqa. y cina [?]. anos.  
ff. 9v-10v blank

Life of Don Juan Pacheco, Marques de Villena. 

3. f. 11r [Contemporary title page:] Coronica del quarto Rey don enrique 
de glorosa [sic] memoria hecha por el licenciado diego enrriquez de 
Castillo su coronista Capellan y del su consejo.  ff. 11v-12v blank 
[Contemporary foliation begins:]  ff. 1r-201r  Tanto [corrected from 
"Quanto"] los principes senalados y antiguos varones de las hedades 
pasadas quedaron famosos...que nj porlo muy prospero se muestre mas 
alegria nj porlas aduersidades Senaladas de alta tristeza. fin.  
f. 201v blank

Diego Enriquez del Castillo (1433-1504?), Chronicle of King Enrique IV 
of Castile (1425-74); J. de Flores, ed., Cronica del Rey D. Enrique 
el quarto de este nombre, por su capellan y cronista Diego Enriquez 
del Castillo (Madrid, 1787).

4. f. 202r  Decretal texts concerning behavior of clerics, in Sp.  
ff. 202v-231v blank

5. f. 232r-v Brief law text, in Lat.

	Paper (watermarks:  unidentified hand), ff. i (paper) + 245 (ff. 
1-12, with an unnumbered leaf between 4 and 5; followed by contemporary 
foliation 1-201; remainder of leaves, modern foliation 202-232) + i 
(paper), 293 x 206 (232 x 155) mm.  Ca. 28 long lines.  Single vertical 
bounding lines ruled in hard point.
	I 11 [?], II 2 (ff. 11-12), III-VIII 8, IX 4, X-XXIII 8; collation 
of remaining leaves impossible due to tight binding.  Remains of quire 
and leaf signatures (e.g., b i, bij, etc.) for quires III-XXIII only.
	Written by several scribes in late Spanish bookhands with cursive 
and humanistic features.  Some headings in large gothic display script.
	Binding:  Spain, s. xvi.  Sewn on three tawed skin, slit straps, 
now broken, laced into channels in wooden boards.  One plain wound 
endband is sewn on a tawed skin core, the other endband was added later.
	Covered in brown calf blind-tooled with concentric frames, the 
central panel and alternate frames filled with rope interlace.  The 
layout of the design is the same on both boards but different small 
tools are used in the central panels.  Spine:  four fillets outlining 
the supports and in the center of the panels a small rope tool in the 
center of the compartments so formed.  Two fastenings, the catches 
on the lower board, the clasp straps later additions.  The spine is
mended at head and tail; some corners repaired.

Written in Spain in the first quarter of the 16th century; early
provenance unknown.  Traces of shelf-mark, in ink, on spine "L. 6. 25
[?]."  Belonged to James P. R. Lyell (bookplate); for further 
information on his manuscripts see Lyell Cat., pp. xv-xxix.  Bought
from the Lyell estate by Bernard Quaritch in 1951 and sold in 1952 
(Cat. 699, no. 71; Cat.  716, no. 310).  Purchased from C. A. Stonehill 
(inv. nos. 3135 and 11204) in 1955 by Thomas E. Marston (bookplate).

secundo folio:  [table, f. 3:]  c#o xxviij#o como llega
[text, f. 2:]  por que

Bibliography:  Faye and Bond, p. 66, no. 27.

Barbara A. Shailor