Collection ID: 0031 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Sentencias y carta executoria de hidalguia a pedimiento de Alonso Ximenez de Canizares vezino de la ciudad de Guadalajara

Authors

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

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

1923‑17‑1
(Philadelphia, United States, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs)

Publisher

Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs

Language

Castilian, Spanish

Origin

Place

Valladolid, Spain

Summary

This manuscript is a carta executoria issued under the name of Philip II of Spain in favor of Alonso Ximenez de Canizares, of Guadalajara, in response to his pleito de hidalguia (litigation to establish noble status), issued in Valladolid and dated 28 May 1574. The first page of the text is decorated with a large historiated initial depicting Canizares and his wife Maria de Zuniga, a coat of arms, and a full illuminated border; the rest of the text is almost undecorated, with text written in Spanish rotunda script and section divisions simply indicated with a word or two in larger letters. The manuscript is on parchment in one large quire and has a limp parchment wrapper; the end of the text refers to a colored cord (still present, fols. 20v-21r) and a lead seal (no longer present) (f. 39r). The text is followed by signatures (f. 39r) and a later, probably early seventeenth-century, notarial inscription also concerning the Canizares family (f. 39v).

Extent

39; 325 x 215 mm bound to 335 x 225 mm

Foliation

Early foliation in ink, lower left verso (fols. 2-23)

Collation

1 (39, +1)

Support

Parchment

Binding

Limp parchment wrapper with remnants of two parchment ties; sewn with a multicolored cord

Layout

One column of thirty-seven or thirty-eight lines; frame-ruled in red ink; written area: 208 x 127 mm

Decoration

Illuminated first page with a large (twenty-four lines) historiated initial D (God blessing Alonso Ximenez de Canizares and Doña Maria de Zuniga kneeling below); display square capitals for the name of the king, Don Felipe; a coat of arms in the lower margin divided in three, with a fleur de lis above two dogs and a leopard (?) on red, five green shoots on gold, and a Catherine-wheel on green; and a full illuminated border including a gemstone and floral designs with a ladybug (fol. 1v); simple decorations in text ink marking upper and lower margins throughout

Script

Gothic--rotunda (Spanish)

Provenance

• Gift of H. Norris Harrison and John Harrison, Jr. (bookplate, inside front cover), 1923?
   

Keywords

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

Licenses

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Table of contents

• Unnumbered 1 verso — [Carta executoria]
• Unnumbered 39 verso — [Seventeenth-century addition]

Decorations

• Unnumbered 1 verso — Historiated initial D, God above Alonso Ximenez de Canizares and Maria de Zuniga
• Unnumbered 1 verso — Coat of arms with two dogs, leopard, fleur de lis, five stalks, and Catherine-wheel
• Unnumbered 1 verso — Illuminated border with ladybug and gemstone