The name is absent

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seum, London, 1877, 2 vols.). The collections found particularly
useful were:

69. Add. 9915-34, 2¾03, 28351, 28361-4, and 28423.

70. Eg. 417, 5^o5~S¹3, a^{nd 2θ8}4∙

These deal with local sheep owners’ gilds of the fourteenth cen-
tury, canada rights, taxes on sheep and wool, and pasturage laws of
the sixteenth century. Some valuable early Spanish tracts on economic
subjects are bound with these manuscripts.

9. Archives in Paris

Here one has the advantage of two carefully prepared inventories:
Alfred Morel-Fatio, Catalogue des manuscrits espagnoles (Paris, 1881-
92), and Ministère des Affaires Étrangères, Inventaire sommaire des
Archives ... des Affaires Étrangères, Fonds divers (Paris, 1892); Es-
pagne, pp. 125-217. In the Bibliothèque Nationale, there is but one
important manuscript item on the Mesta:

71. Esp. 66. Registre de confirmations de . . . Charles-Quint, which
contains (pp. ɪɪ ff.) the ordinances of the town gild, or mesta, of sheep
owners of Baeza, 1552.

The Archives des Affaires Étrangères has, in its Fonds Divers:

72. Esp. 54. Piecesrelativesauxtribunaux . . . et finances de la Mesta,
162r-47. This is in Mémoires et Documents, Espagne, T. 47, fols. 144-152.

In the Archives Nationales, Collection Than, there is also:

73. Lista de Ios Senores del Consejo que han presidido en el Concejo de
la Mesta . . . 1670-1772.

On another such list, see below, No. 8r. The Bibliothèque de
Sainte-Geneviève has an important item in two pages of ms. notes in
a copy of the Concordia de 1783 (see below, No. 79), written by one
Daunon:

74. (Notes on an interview with Labene₁ secretary of the French Em-
bassy in Madrid, with regard to Campomanes' intentions and policy toward
the Mesta at the time that he was planning the dissolution of that body;
ca. 1770-1783).

B. Printed Works

The chief collections where the following printed sources have been
found are the Archive of the Mesta; the Sala de Raros of the Biblio-
teca Nacional (Madrid); the Biblioteca del Instituto de San Isidro
(Madrid), an excellent collection of early printed books, especially

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on legal subjects; the British Museum (London), whose valuable
series of collected Spanish tracts (nos. 1320 1 6-10, 1321 к 6ff.—
about 15 volumes) has reposed uncatalogued in its basement since
Gayangos' time, some forty years ago; the Hispanic Society of Amer-
ica (New York); and the Kbnigliche Bibliothek (Berlin), which has
recently, under Konrad Haebler’s direction, built up a good collec-
tion of early Spanish prints. The Ticknor Collection (Boston) and
the Harvard Law School Library (Cambridge) also have a few items
not listed here, but bearing on the general topic of Spanish land law.
Pérez Pastor’s Bibliografia (see above, No. 13) is useful to check up
some of the earlier Mesta codes, though he has omitted several.

It is unnecessary here to list the scores of contemporary reprints
of laws and decrees on this subject, because these appeared in some
one of the compilations here enumerated. Of these reprints there are
copies in all of the libraries named above, but the Bibliothèque Na-
tionale (Paris) is especially well equipped with this class of materials
(see Morel-Fatio, " Cinq recueils de pièces espagnoles,” in the Revue
des bibliothèques, Jan.-March, 1911).

i. Mesta Codes and Documents (arranged chronologically)

75. CopUaciin de Iodas las Leyes y Ordenanzas del Honrado Concejo de la
Mesta general de Castilla y de Lein ... 34 leaves. N. t. p., n. d. This is
the first printed code of the Mesta. Pastor notes a copy in the possession of
Sancho Rayon, a Madrid collector. There is also a copy in the British
Museum, Add. 9929, fols. 311-343. The final document of this Copilaeiin
is dated x526, at Toledo, which may be a clue to the date and place of pub-
lication, though Pastor, Imprenta en Toledo (Madrid, 1887), does not list
such a item. In this connection it may be noted that the Mesta accounts
(above, No. 17) record expenses in 1516 for printing 1000 copies of certain
Leyes de Juan II, which are embodied in this copilaciin. This would indi-
cate a piecemeal publication, and not the complete code, as implied by
Pastor (above, No. 13), p. 15.

76. Libro de Ios Privilégias y Leyes del Ilustre y muy Honrado Concejo de
la Mesta . . . Madrid, 1569.

This code succeeded No. 75. It was revised in 1582, 1586, 1590, 1595,
1609, 1639, and 1681. These were simply compilations, with no attempt at
analysis or arrangement. They were all displaced by the Quaderno of 1731
(No. 77). Elaborate analyses of most of these will be found in Pastor (above,
No. 13), though the 1582 edition, which is in the British Museum, has es-
caped him. It is interesting to note that the two editions in the Paris
Bibliothèque Nationale (1586 and 1595) are from Colbert’s library; and
the marginal annotations in them indicate that the introduction into France
of an organization like the Mesta was contemplated by him, along wit⅛the
importation of merino sheep.

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