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Carta ejecutoria de hidalguía in favor of Diego Suarez de Peredo (MS M.987).

Accession number
MS M.987
Object title
Carta ejecutoria de hidalguía in favor of Diego Suarez de Peredo (MS M.987).
Display Date
January 18, 1591.
Created
Mexico City, Mexico, January 18, 1591.
Binding
Contemporary brown goatskin, tooled in blind with a roll, and in gilt with small tools, including a parrot-like bird perched on a branch.
Credit line
Purchase; Miss Julia P. Wightman; 1978.
Description
20 leaves (1 column, 30-31 lines), bound : vellum ; 300 x 210 mm
Provenance
Diego Suarez de Peredo; Robert W. Martin; his sale, New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Nov. 12, 1963, no. 377; Andrew Brown; his sale, Boston, Robert W. Skinner, Inc., Nov. 8, 1978, no. 59.
Notes
Ms. carta ejecutoria de hidalguía in favor of Diego Suarez de Peredo; written in Mexico City, Mexico, and dated Jan. 18, 1591.
The watermark in the paper is closest to Briquet 5693, which has been dated to Madrid, 1566--Cf. Nineteenth report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980.
Script
chancery script
Language
Spanish
Century
Classification