Description of University of Pennsylvania LJS 21: Executoria de hidalguia a pedimiento The University of Pennsylvania Libraries This description is ©2015 University of Pennsylvania Libraries. It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. All referenced images and their content are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. Ms. codex. Title from colophon (f. 50r). Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Rare Book & Manuscript Library LJS 21 4928082 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4928082 Carta executoria issued under the name of Philip III of Spain in favor of Juan de Mena Gutierrez of the town of Los Santos in the Spanish province of León, in response to his pleito de hidalguia (litigation to establish noble status), written in Granada and dated 14 Apr. 1606. Later additions at beginning and end of manuscript (f. i recto-1r, 50r-51r). Spanish Executoria de hidalguia a pedimiento Spain former owner Schoenberg, Lawrence J

parchment

52 leaves : 305 x 210 (238 x 126) mm. bound to 320 x 220 mm

Parchment, 52; 1⁴ (1 is pastedown) 2-4¹² 5⁸(+4) 6² (2 is pastedown); [i, 1-51]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Written in 34 long lines; ruled in purple ink with double vertical bounding lines.
Written in a rounded Gothic script. Painted full-page miniature of owner and family praying before an image of the Crucifixion (f. 1v); painted coat of arms (f. 2r); 13-line painted miniatures of Saint James vanquishing the Moors and Saint Bartholomew (f. 2v); 9-line historiated initial with portrait of Philip III (f. 49r); 15 illuminated initials, 6-line to 10-line, in gold on grounds of red or of red and blue, heightened with silver; calligraphic headings. Some illuminations worn or flaking. Miniature, Owner and family praying before image of Crucifixion, f. 1v Miniature, Owner's coat of arms, f. 2r Miniature, St. James vanquishing the Moors, f. 2v Miniature, St. Bartholomew, f. 2v Illuminated text, f. 2v Calligraphic heading, f. 3r Calligraphic heading, f. 3v Calligraphic heading, f. 4r Calligraphic heading, f. 6r Illuminated initial, Initial D, f. 9v Calligraphic heading, f. 9v Illuminated initial, Initial F, f. 14v Calligraphic heading, f. 15v Illuminated initial, Initial I, f. 19v Calligraphic heading, f. 19v Calligraphic heading, f. 20r Calligraphic heading, f. 21r Illuminated initial, Initial M, f. 25r Illuminated initial, Initial D, f. 30v Calligraphic heading, f. 30v Calligraphic heading, f. 34v Illuminated initial, Initial E, f. 37v Illuminated initial, Initial F, f. 37v Calligraphic heading, f. 37v Calligraphic heading, f. 39r Calligraphic heading, f. 39v Calligraphic heading, f. 41r Calligraphic heading, f. 43v Illuminated initial, Initial E, f. 45r Illuminated initial, Initial F, f. 45r Calligraphic heading, f. 45r Calligraphic heading, f. 46v Illuminated initial, Initial E, f. 47r Illuminated initial, Initial F, f. 47v Illuminated initial, Initial E, f. 48r Calligraphic heading, f. 48r Illuminated initial, Initial F, f. 48v Illuminated initial, Initial E, f. 49r Historiated initial, Initial D, Philip III, f. 49r Calligraphic heading, f. 49r

Contemporary Spanish morocco, gilt-stamped, gilt-tooled, over pasteboards including sheets of early printed music.

Written in Granada, signed 14 Apr. 1606 (f. 50r).

1606 Granada
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 11 December 1979, lot 28, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg. Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Nobility--Spain--Early works to 1800 Illumination of books and manuscripts--Specimens Codices Illuminations Letters patent Manuscripts, Spanish--17th century Manuscripts, European
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