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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).
Support: Parchment; 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)
One column of thirty-seven or thirty-eight lines; frame-ruled in red ink; written area: 208 x 127 mm
Gothic--rotunda (Spanish)
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
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Valladolid, Spain
1574 May 28
Limp parchment wrapper with remnants of two parchment ties; sewn with a multicolored cord
Castilian, Spanish
Gift of H. Norris Harrison and John Harrison, Jr. (bookplate, inside front cover), 1923?
Valladolid, Spain
1574 May 28
Castilian, Spanish
Gift of H. Norris Harrison and John Harrison, Jr.
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).
Gothic--rotunda (Spanish)
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
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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