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

Title

Carta executoria, in favor of Juan de Londono

Authors

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

Other related names

• Londono, Juan de, former owner
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 59
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 194

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 Juan de Londono of Palacios de Goda in response to his litigation to establish noble status, was written in Valladolid and signed on December 2, 1587. It has elaborate illuminations on the first pages that are typical of this type of document, and the text, written in humanistic script, is enclosed in simple frames of brown and gold and includes occasional illuminated words or letters marking the beginning of sections. The two major quires are sewn with a multicolored cord. Notarial copies of other family documents dated 1685 and 1689 are at the end of the volume.

Extent

62; 335 x 230 mm bound to 320 x 221 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1 (30), 2 (28), 3 (4)

Support

Parchment

Binding

Original sixteenth-century brown morocco with elaborately gilt sides and three panels; the innermost diamond shaped composed of roll stamps showing a lion chasing a unicorn and a hound chasing a hare; at the extreme corners two male and two female heads; in the center an oval medallion of the Virgin and Child, interstices filled with foliate and star-shaped stamps, gilt edges, in the Eve style; gatherings sewn with multicolored cord

Layout

One column of thirty-six lines; box-ruled; written area: 235 x 135 mm

Decoration

Two full-page illuminations in gold and colors (fols. 1v, 2r); two smaller miniatures in colors heightened in gold (fols. 52v, 58v); headings and initials in gold and red and blue grounds; each page within a gold line border

Script

Humanistic (Spanish), with notarial inscriptions

Provenance

• Granted by Philip II, King of Spain, in favor of Juan de Londono, Palacios de Goda, dated Valladolid, December 2, 1587; sold by Sotheby's (date of sale?), no. 95 or 120; sold by American Art Association (date of sale?), no. 250; (directly to?) John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
   

Keywords

• Document
• 16th century
• Spanish
• Illumination
• Spain
• Legal

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Carta executoria
• fol. 61r — Additional family documents

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Full-page miniature, top to bottom, Londono family praying to the Virgin and Child, coat of arms
• fol. 2r — Full-page miniature, Saint James the Great vanquishing the Moors above a family tree springing from a knight in armor, with side borders containing martial trophies, the motto Beritas Bincit, and the year 1587
• fol. 13r — Manicule
• fol. 52v — Small miniature, Knight in armor on horseback
• fol. 58v — Small miniature, Philip II dressed in a black doublet, seated on a throne