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Title

Executoria de hidalguia a pedimiento

Authors

• Spain

Other related names

• Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner

Call number

LJS 21
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4928082
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4928082

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Spanish

Origin

Date

1606

Place

Granada

Summary

Carta executoria issued under the name of Philip III of Spain in favor of Juan de Mena Gutierrez of the town of Los Santos in the Spanish province of León, in response to his pleito de hidalguia (litigation to establish noble status), written in Granada and dated 14 Apr. 1606. Later additions at beginning and end of manuscript (f. i recto-1r, 50r-51r).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from colophon (f. 50r).
   

Extent

52 leaves : 305 x 210 (238 x 126) mm. bound to 320 x 220 mm

Collation

Parchment, 52; 1⁴ (1 is pastedown) 2-4¹² 5⁸(+4) 6² (2 is pastedown); [i, 1-51]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Contemporary Spanish morocco, gilt-stamped, gilt-tooled, over pasteboards including sheets of early printed music.

Layout

Written in 34 long lines; ruled in purple ink with double vertical bounding lines.

Decoration

Painted full-page miniature of owner and family praying before an image of the Crucifixion (f. 1v); painted coat of arms (f. 2r); 13-line painted miniatures of Saint James vanquishing the Moors and Saint Bartholomew (f. 2v); 9-line historiated initial with portrait of Philip III (f. 49r); 15 illuminated initials, 6-line to 10-line, in gold on grounds of red or of red and blue, heightened with silver; calligraphic headings. Some illuminations worn or flaking.

Script

Written in a rounded Gothic script.

Provenance

• Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 11 December 1979, lot 28, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
   

Subjects topical

• Nobility--Spain--Early works to 1800
• Illumination of books and manuscripts--Specimens

Genres

• Codices
• Illuminations
• Letters patent
• Manuscripts, Spanish--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 1v — Miniature, Owner and family praying before image of Crucifixion, f. 1v
• fol. 2r — Miniature, Owner's coat of arms, f. 2r
• fol. 2v — Miniature, St. James vanquishing the Moors, f. 2v
• fol. 2v — Miniature, St. Bartholomew, f. 2v
• fol. 2v — Illuminated text, f. 2v
• fol. 3r — Calligraphic heading, f. 3r
• fol. 3v — Calligraphic heading, f. 3v
• fol. 4r — Calligraphic heading, f. 4r
• fol. 6r — Calligraphic heading, f. 6r
• fol. 9v — Illuminated initial, Initial D, f. 9v
• fol. 9v — Calligraphic heading, f. 9v
• fol. 14v — Illuminated initial, Initial F, f. 14v
• fol. 15v — Calligraphic heading, f. 15v
• fol. 19v — Illuminated initial, Initial I, f. 19v
• fol. 19v — Calligraphic heading, f. 19v
• fol. 20r — Calligraphic heading, f. 20r
• fol. 21r — Calligraphic heading, f. 21r
• fol. 25r — Illuminated initial, Initial M, f. 25r
• fol. 30v — Illuminated initial, Initial D, f. 30v
• fol. 30v — Calligraphic heading, f. 30v
• fol. 34v — Calligraphic heading, f. 34v
• fol. 37v — Illuminated initial, Initial E, f. 37v
• fol. 37v — Illuminated initial, Initial F, f. 37v
• fol. 37v — Calligraphic heading, f. 37v
• fol. 39r — Calligraphic heading, f. 39r
• fol. 39v — Calligraphic heading, f. 39v
• fol. 41r — Calligraphic heading, f. 41r
• fol. 43v — Calligraphic heading, f. 43v
• fol. 45r — Illuminated initial, Initial E, f. 45r
• fol. 45r — Illuminated initial, Initial F, f. 45r
• fol. 45r — Calligraphic heading, f. 45r
• fol. 46v — Calligraphic heading, f. 46v
• fol. 47r — Illuminated initial, Initial E, f. 47r
• fol. 47v — Illuminated initial, Initial F, f. 47v
• fol. 48r — Illuminated initial, Initial E, f. 48r
• fol. 48r — Calligraphic heading, f. 48r
• fol. 48v — Illuminated initial, Initial F, f. 48v
• fol. 49r — Illuminated initial, Initial E, f. 49r
• fol. 49r — Historiated initial, Initial D, Philip III, f. 49r
• fol. 49r — Calligraphic heading, f. 49r