Accession number
MS M.975
Object title
Carta ejecutoria de hidalguia for Nicolas Chacón de Hinojosa (MS M.975).
Display Date
March 10, 1597.
Created
Valladolid, Spain, March 10, 1597.
Binding
Late 16th- or early 17th-century brown morocco gilt binding, elaborately tooled with an animal roll of a hound, unicorn, feeding stag, and lion; and other individual small animal tools.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, with the special assistance of Miss Julia P. Wightman, 1977.
Description
53 leaves (1 column, 30 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 340 x 230 mm
Provenance
Nicolas Chacón de Hinojosa; J.D. (Librairie Lardanchet, Beaux livres...Bibliothèque J.D., Paris, 1976, no. 8).
Notes
Ms. letters patent of nobility; written and illuminated in Valladolid, Spain, and dated Mar. 10, 1597.
Decoration: 1 frontispiece with miniature, arms, and borders.
Decoration: 1 frontispiece with miniature, arms, and borders.
Script
humanistic script
Language
Spanish
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