Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Carta executoria, in favor of Luís and Andrés Ordóñez

Authors

• Spain. Sovereign (1556-1598 : Philip II) (http://viaf.org/viaf/121013411)

Other related names

• Ordoñez, Luis, former owner
• Ordoñez, Andrés, former owner
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)
• Lewis, Anne Baker, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 58
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 193

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Castilian, Spanish

Origin

Place

Valladolid, Spain

Summary

This carta executoria, issued in the name of Philip II of Spain in favor of the brothers Luis and Andrés Ordóñez of Móstoles in response to their litigation to establish noble status, was written in Valladolid and signed on June 25, 1577. It has elaborate illuminations on the first pages that are typical of this type of document, but the text, written in a rounded Gothic script, is mostly undecorated except for occasional illuminated words marking the beginning of sections. The illuminations are protected by blue silk curtains and the document is sewn in a single gathering with a multicolored cord.

Extent

40; 310 x 230 mm bound to 332 x 235 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Support

Parchment

Binding

Original sixteenth-century Spanish limp vellum with remains of leather ties; sewn with a multicolored cord

Layout

One column of thirty-six lines; frame-ruled in ink with quadruple vertical and upper bounding lines; written area: 210 x 120 mm

Decoration

One full-page miniature and border with owner portraits and coat of arms (fol. 1v); two quarter-page miniatures, of Saint James the Greater (fol. 2r) and Philip II (fol. 37r), with borders; illuminated words at start of text divisions; flourished initials

Script

Gothic--rotunda (Spanish), with notarial inscriptions

Provenance

• Luís and Andrés Ordóñez of Móstoles, Spain; Sotheby's, no. 95 or 120 (dated as 1607); Sale, American Art Association, no. 250; (directly to?) John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
   

Keywords

• 16th century
• Spanish
• Spain
• Gothic
• Illumination
• Inhabited initial
• Original binding
• Legal
• Heraldry

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 1v — Full-page miniature, top to bottom, Virgin and Child, owner portraits, coat of arms
• fol. 2r — Small miniature, Saint James the Great vanquishing the Moors, with a full border including a second coat of arms
• fol. 37r — Small miniature, Philip II, King of Spain, enthroned, with full border of a Latin motto