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Title

Executoria a pedimiento

Authors

• Spain

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 74
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9915517883503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155903491
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1551788

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Spanish

Origin

Date

1564

Place

Valladolid

Summary

Carta executoria issued in the name of Philip II of Spain in favor of Juan Ximenez de Angulo of Sancto Domingo de la Calçada (i.e., Santo Domingo de la Calzada) in response to his pleito de hidalguia (litigation to establish noble status). Includes signatures (f. 32r) and a later addition dated 1614 (f. 32r-32v).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from colophon (f. 32r). Zacour-Hirsch gives the title as Carta executoria, which is the more common formula for documents of this type. Description taken largely from Zacour-Hirsch.
   

Extent

34 leaves : 298 x 233 (214 x 118) mm. bound to 309 x 239 mm

Foliation

Parchment, i (contemporary parchment) + 32 + i (contemporary parchment); [1-32]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Contemporary gilt morocco over wooden boards. Very musty. Evidence of water and mildew damage. Leather wearing away from cover boards, especially at the corners.

Layout

Written in 40 long lines; ruled in red.

Decoration

Two color illustrations of coats of arms (f. 2v), somewhat damaged due to smearing and flaking; several illuminated initials and section headings in gold on a red background; some doodling in the margins, probably later in date.

Script

Written in Spanish rotunda script by a single hand, with a shorter document added by a second hand (f. 32r-32v).

Provenance

• Acquired, 1960.
   

Subjects topical

• Heraldry
• Nobility--Spain--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Letters patent
• Illuminations
• Manuscripts, Spanish--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 16th century
• Heraldry
• Spain
• Spanish
• Illumination

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 2v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 2v
• fol. 3r — Illuminated initial, Initial S, f. 3r
• fol. 7r — Illuminated initial, Initial E, f. 7r
• fol. 9v — Illuminated initial, Initial E, f. 9v
• fol. 13r — Illuminated initial, Initial E, f. 13r
• fol. 16r — Illuminated initial, Initial E, f. 16r
• fol. 19r — Illuminated initial, Initial E, f. 19r
• fol. 21v — Illuminated initial, Initial E, f. 21v
• fol. 24v — Illuminated initial, Initial E, f. 24v
• fol. 26v — Illuminated initial, Initial E, f. 26v
• fol. 29r — Illuminated initial, Initial E, f. 29r
• fol. 30r — Illuminated initial, Initial F, f. 30r