• This material is open for research.
• Manuscript, on parchment, in a single professional hand, containing the scribal copy of a judicial inquiry, recorded by Gonzalo Gonzales de Vega, public notary and scribe to King Fernando of Aragon and Sicily. The lawsuits originated in a conflict between Gil Gomes and the city of Avila with the neighboring villages over boundary lines, pasture land, stone-pine forests, and mountain estates.
• Ex Libris Leonhard Sutter. Purchased from Les Enluminures on the Henry Fletcher Fund, 2013.
• Explicit signed and dated by Gonzales de Vega, 14 August 1415.
• Layout: single columns of 29-32 lines.
• Script: cursive chancellery script.
• Decoration: public notary's initials at the bottom of every folio. Some pen flourishing and decorated initials at the start of Latin texts; five two-line initials in red ink with purple penwork; two four-line initials in gold leaf with elaborate purple penwork.
• Binding: contemporary full green sheepskin over pasteboards; remains of ties.
• Written on upper board: 1372. Notario de Auila.
• Gonzalo Gonzales de Vega, Record of a Land Dispute in Avila. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Subjects:

• Gonzales de Vega, Gonzalo.
• Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven.
• Land tenure -- Spain -- Early works to 1800.
• Property -- Spain.
• Avila (Spain) -- Early works to 1800.
• Spain -- Early works to 1800.
• Manuscripts, Medieval -- Spain -- 15th century.
• Notarial documents -- Spain -- 15th century.
• Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.