Accession number
MS M.707
Object title
[Carta ejecutoria de hidalguia for Arias Gonzalez de Navia y Valledor].
Display Date
1578.
Created
Valladolid, Spain, 1578.
Binding
16th-century Spanish black calf, gilt stamped with a lozenge surrounded by three bands separated by rows of rosettes.
Description
100 leaves (1 column, 36 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 310 x 230 mm
Provenance
Made for Arias Gonzalez de Navia y Valledor in 1578; purchased from Juan de Portela of Havana, Cuba, in 1926.
Notes
Ms. letters patent of nobility for Arias Gonzalez de Navia y Valledor; written and illuminated in Valladolid, Spain, in 1578 (authorized on Mar. 24, 1578).
Signed on fol. 97v by the lawyers Jimenez de Cabredo, Atienca, Arebaldo de Sedeno.
Scribe: Xavierdo; colophon on fol. 97v reads: Yo crotobal de Aulentia scrivano de los hijos dalgo de la audiencia de su majestad la fize scrivir por su mandado por xavierdo de los scribanos de los hijos dalgo en esta nobenta y siete hojas de pergamino conesta.
Decoration: 1 full-page illumination (Arias Gonzalez and family kneeling before a vision of the Virgin and Child; arms of the Navia y Valledor family: coupé, in the first, six contons (1) argent, a tree vert; (2) or, an armed knight argent; (3) azure a fleur-de-lis or surmounted by a star of the same; (4) a boar hunt; (5) gules a castle or surmounted by a white bird; (6) or, a military cook or maker of ammunition; in the second: combat in the mountains; upper half of shield surrounded by the motto: El solar del valledor es antiguo y de gran valor; lower half has the motto: Dios me aiude ybias ybias); 1 historiated initial P (St. Martin sharing his cloak with a crippled beggar); and portrait of Philip II.
Artist: Xavierdo?
Signed on fol. 97v by the lawyers Jimenez de Cabredo, Atienca, Arebaldo de Sedeno.
Scribe: Xavierdo; colophon on fol. 97v reads: Yo crotobal de Aulentia scrivano de los hijos dalgo de la audiencia de su majestad la fize scrivir por su mandado por xavierdo de los scribanos de los hijos dalgo en esta nobenta y siete hojas de pergamino conesta.
Decoration: 1 full-page illumination (Arias Gonzalez and family kneeling before a vision of the Virgin and Child; arms of the Navia y Valledor family: coupé, in the first, six contons (1) argent, a tree vert; (2) or, an armed knight argent; (3) azure a fleur-de-lis or surmounted by a star of the same; (4) a boar hunt; (5) gules a castle or surmounted by a white bird; (6) or, a military cook or maker of ammunition; in the second: combat in the mountains; upper half of shield surrounded by the motto: El solar del valledor es antiguo y de gran valor; lower half has the motto: Dios me aiude ybias ybias); 1 historiated initial P (St. Martin sharing his cloak with a crippled beggar); and portrait of Philip II.
Artist: Xavierdo?
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Spanish
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