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Carta ejecutoria de hidalguía.

Accession number
MS M.321
Object title
Carta ejecutoria de hidalguía.
Display Date
1589.
Created
Spain, perhaps Granada, 1589.
Binding
16th- or 17th-century white and blue silk over paper boards; originally with ties of rose silk.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), 1907.
Description
96 leaves (1 column, 34 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 310 x 210 mm
Provenance
Pedro Perez de la Helguera; signatures of what may be previous owners on fol. 3r: A. de Quenca...L; ...r Diego de Torres; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Ludovic Badin in 1907; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. letters patent of nobility for Pedro Perez de la Helguera; written and illuminated in Spain, perhaps in Granada, in 1589 (dated July 15, 1589 on fol. 92).
On fol. 3r a sum in maravedis is written out; it has been speculated that this may have been the price of the manuscript at some time during its existence--Cf. files.
Scribe: Blas Varela.
Decoration: 3 full-page miniatures, 1 historiated initial.
Textiles: binding of blue and white silk over boards.
Script
rounded textura
Language
Spanish
Century
Classification