[Letter to the Duke of Arcos]
- Description
- Letter from Emperor Charles V, writing as King of Spain, to the Duke of Arcos. Charles states that it is well known how greatly he desires a universal peace in Christendom and how much he has worked to achieve it by setting at liberty the King of France and in other ways not to his advantage, but far from attaining his end his enemies grow bolder every day and are at present blockading the Kingdom of Naples and preparing to occupy Sicily. His ministers impolore his personal intervention to save these countries of his inheritance from the infidel, and he has therefore decided to go to aid them and the King of Hungary who is likewise threatened, and his gives his orders to the Duke to make the necessary preparations for a campaign before the end of April.
- Creator
- Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500-1558
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- Manuscripts, Spanish
- Manuscripts, Renaissance
- Date
- 1529
- Language
- Spanish; Castilian
- Subject
- History
- Geographic Subject
- Hungary -- History -- Turkish occupation, 1526-1699
- Hungary
- Naples (Kingdom) -- History -- Spanish rule, 1442-1707
- Naples (Kingdom)
- Spain -- History -- Charles I, 1516-1556
- Spain
- Turkey -- History -- Süleyman I, 1520-1566
- Turkey
- Extent
- 1 item (1 leaf) : paper ; 30 x 44 cm folded to 30 x 22 cm
- Notes
- Toledo; 20 February 1529.
- Item description taken from Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue and from identified dealer's description on file in the Library.
- Consists of a single bifolium, making 2 ff. There are 63 lines of text on f. 1r-v.
- Unidentified dealer's description in English on file in the Library. Also on file is a typewritten description of the item in French, with no indication of author.
- In Spanish.
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 106
- Provenance
- Acquired 1961.
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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