Accession number
MS M.852
Object title
Carta ejecutoria de hidalguía (MS M.852).
Display Date
1574.
Created
Granada, Spain, 1574.
Binding
16th-century black morocco over cardboard, gilt stamped, central panel surrounded by 5 gilt stamped borders, 2 of rinceaux and 3 with heads or masks and military trophies, 2 linen ties, in 1/2 black morocco case by Marguerite Duprez Lahey.
Credit line
Gift of Dr. Sylvain S. Bruschwig, 1951.
Description
50 leaves (1 column, 34 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 310 x 220 mm
Provenance
Executed for Baltazar de Escobar of Marchena; gift of Dr. Sylvain S. Brunschwig, January 10, 1951.
Notes
Ms. letters patent of nobility for Baltazar de Escobar of Marchena near Seville; written, illuminated and bound in Granada, Spain, in 1574 (dated October 20, 1574 by scribe on folio 48v).
Decoration: large shield with Escobar arms quartered with other families on fol. 1v, oval medallions of the Crucifixion and the Virgin above and below, 13 illuminated initials.
Scribe: Pedro de la Torre.
Decoration: large shield with Escobar arms quartered with other families on fol. 1v, oval medallions of the Crucifixion and the Virgin above and below, 13 illuminated initials.
Scribe: Pedro de la Torre.
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Language
Spanish
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