Beinecke MS 624
Spain (Toledo), s. XV2-XVIin
Statutes of the Confraternity of Corpus Christi at Toledo, in Spanish

f. 1r blank

1. ff. 1v-2r	Illuminated pages.	f. 2v blank

2. ff. 3r-4r	 Capitulo Ių. De las cosas que Tolledo ordeno en rrazon d'esta fiesta en su 
ayuntamiento ...  Capitulo XXXII. De la pena contra los cofadres inobedientes, de los que non 
vienen al finado.		ff. 4v-5v ruled but blank

Table of Contents of art. 3.

3. ff. 6r-17v	Padron de la hermandad e cofadria de Corpus Christi e de sancta Maria de la Paz 
e de sante Alifonso. En el nombre de Dios. Amen. [prologue:] Porque segund dize el apostol todos 
anemos de estar ante la catreda de Jhesu Christo para rrescebir gualardon de las obras que por los 
cuerpos fizieremos, quier sean buenos, quier sean malas ... E este dia que saquen todas las 
rreliquias del sagrario e que las lieven los prestes e diachones en la procesyon. [f. 7r, text :] 
Capitulo primero. De las cosas que Toledo ordeno en rrazon d'esta fiesta en su ayuntamiento. 
Otro sy por mayor honrra de la fiesta e por traher a los omnes a mayor devocion ordeno Toledo 
que esta dia non judguen ... [the text after the heading of cap. XXXII is an addition, written f. 
17rb-va :] E despues desto en la muy noble cibdat de Tolledo, honze dias de jullio anno del 
nascimiento del nostro Salvador Jhesu Christo de mill e quatrocientos e sesenta e un annos ... quel 
tal cofadre sea desechado de la cofadria e le non conbiden mas. [signature ; there follows in 
another hand a decision of the chapter dated 24 Jan. 1540].

Statutes of the Confraternity of Corpus Christi, Our Lady of Peace and St. Ildefons at Toledo, 
under the patronage of the King of Castile and the Archbishop of Toledo, renewed during the 
reign of  Henry IV, King of Castile (1454-1474), with an addition dated 11 July 1461. The latest 
date in the earlier statutes is 24 January 1417 (see f. 16v).

4. ff. 18r-19v	More regulations for the Confraternity of Corpus Christi, dated "En la muy noble 
cibdad de Toledo domingo quinze dias del mes de febrero anno del nascimiento de nostro 
Salvador Jhesu Christo de mill y quinientos y seys annos" [15 Febr. 1506].	
	ff. 20-21 blank

Parchment, ff. I (paper) + 21 + I (paper), 270 x 190 mm.

I2 (ff. 1-2), II4 (- 3, ff. 3-5), III8 (ff. 6-13), IV6 (ff. 14-19), V2 (ff. 20-21). The signature "III" is 
visible on f. 8r and there is a horizontal catchword decorated with three flourishes in the middle 
of the lower margin of f. 13v. The outer side of the quires is flesh side, except in the illuminated 
quire I.

Rake ruling for two columns, bounding lines in crayon, horizontal lines in light brown ink ink. 
Ruling type 41, 178 x 130 mm., intercolumnar space 16 mm.; 32 written lines below top line. 
There are 35 traced horizontal lines, but the two bottom lines are not used (their space is marked 
by a double vertical ink line in each column). Art. 4 is written in long lines without taking into 
account the existing ruling.

Artt. 2-3 are written by one hand in bold Southern Gothica Textualis Formata with Spanish 
features; the addition on f. 17rb-va is by another hand in the same script. Art. 4 is executed by 
one hand in bold Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Currens with Spanish features.

In art. 2 red paragraph marks. In art. 3 fine 2-line flourished initials with marginal extensions, 
alternately in red with blue penwork and blue with red penwork. Large littera duplex of the same 
type and in the same colours on f. 6r. Art. 4 is not decorated. On f. 1v, full-page miniature 
depicting the King of Castile and four noble members of the Confraternity in adoration of the 
Resurrection. On f. 2r, full-page miniature showing the Archbishop of Toledo and five clerics in 
adoration of the Virgin, who hands the chasuble to St. Ildefons Archbishop of Toledo. Both 
miniatures are set in a courtyard and are framed at the outer and lower side with a border of large 
acanths in gold and colours. The slight smudge in the middle of the paintings is probably caused 
by the noble and clerical members swearing an oath of fidelity to the Confraternity and touching 
the appropriate page. 

Binding s. XVI/XVII: blind-tooled light brown leather over pasteboard made from waste paper. 
The covers are decorated with fillets making a double lozenge in a rectangular frame, decorated 
with impressions of a star-shaped tool. Traces of two leather ties. 

Purchased from Laurence Witten on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund, 1981.

Albert Derolez

R 02.06.08