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

Title

Carta executoria a pedimiento de Alonso Mendez de Parada

Authors

• Spain. Sovereign (1516-1556 : Charles I) (http://viaf.org/viaf/121008676)

Other related names

• Mendez de Parada, Alonso, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 263
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Castilian, Spanish; Latin

Origin

Place

Granada, Spain

Summary

This carta executoria, issued in the name of Charles I of Spain in favor of Alonso Mendez de Parada of the city of Huete in response to his litigation to establish noble status (pleito), was written in Granada and signed on February 25, 1538. 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 letters marking the names of ancestors. The document is sewn in a single gathering with a multicolored cord.

Notes

• Notarial signature (fol. 1r)
   

Extent

52; 335 x 240 mm bound to 340 x 240 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto; paper fragment between fols. 36-37 not included in foliation

Collation

1 (52)

Support

Parchment

Binding

Limp vellum wrapper; two loops of twisted leather on front cover for closure

Layout

One column of 40-42 lines; frame-ruled in faint red ink; written area: 223 x 144 mm

Decoration

Highly illuminated first opening with a large historiated initial of the Coronation of the Virgin and a simple coat of arms supported by two dragons (fol. 1v) and large miniatures of the Annunciation and portraits of John the Baptist and Saint John the Evangelist with his poisoned cup (fol. 2), all with full foliate borders of acanthus leaves and flowers; a smaller miniature of King Charles I and a repetition of the coat of arms supported by two dragons (fol. 48v); approximately thirty rather crude illuminated initials, usually marking the beginning of an ancestral name, ranging in height from four to ten lines

Script

Textualis--rotunda (Spanish)

Provenance

• Originally owned by Alonso Mendez de Parada; acquired by Free Library of Philadelphia in 1970
   

Keywords

• 16th century
• Spanish
• Spain
• Heraldry
• Illumination
• Notable binding
• Legal
• Historiated initial

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 1v — Historiated initial D, Coronation of the Virgin
• fol. 1v — Large miniature, Coat of arms
• fol. 2r — Large miniature, Annunciation
• fol. 2r — Large miniature, Saint John the Baptist and Saint John the Evangelist
• fol. 5r — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 6r — Illuminated initial R
• fol. 7v — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 10r — Illuminated initial M
• fol. 12v — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 15r — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 16r — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 17v — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 18v — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 18v — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 19r — Illuminated initial L
• fol. 20r — Illuminated initial M
• fol. 21v — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 22v — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 24r — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 25r — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 26v — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 28v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 29r — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 29r — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 33v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 35r — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 38r — Illuminated initial R
• fol. 39v — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 42r — Illuminated initial M
• fol. 43r — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 45v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 46v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 47v — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 48r — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 48v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 48v — Historiated initial P, King Charles I
• fol. 48v — Large miniature, Coat of arms