Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Carta ejecutoria de hidalguía (MS M.852).

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.
Script
textura
Language
Spanish
Century
Classification