Accession number
MS M.1079
Object title
Miscellany (MS M.1079).
Created
Spain, 1479-1618.
Binding
Bound in vellum.
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows Fund, 1988.
Description
212 leaves : paper, ill. ; 315 x 220 mm
Provenance
Juan Francisco Andrés de Uztarroz (1606-1653); John Cochran, London; Sir Thomas Phillipps (Ms. 3026); Katharine Fenwick; Thomas FitzRoy Fenwick; Alan George Fenwick; William H. Robinson, Ltd.; Robinson Trust; H.P. Kraus, New York; Sam Fogg, London.
Notes
Ms. miscellany; written and decorated in Spain between 1479 and 1618.
This collection was compiled in the 17th century by Juan Francisco Andrés de Uztarroz (1606-1653) to aid him in his genealogical work; most of the documents concern the Carroz family and the Count of Giumera--Cf. Books on manuscript illumination.
Texts: genealogical documents, autograph letters, together with 12 pages from two printed books, and 7 pages of colored drawings.
Decoration: seven colored drawings (fol. 6v-12v); the seven colored drawings were copied from a Beatus manuscript then in the Aragonese monastery of Montearagón--Cf. PML files.
Artist: Vincencio Juan de Lastanosa, who names himself as the copyist of the drawings on fol. 10.
This collection was compiled in the 17th century by Juan Francisco Andrés de Uztarroz (1606-1653) to aid him in his genealogical work; most of the documents concern the Carroz family and the Count of Giumera--Cf. Books on manuscript illumination.
Texts: genealogical documents, autograph letters, together with 12 pages from two printed books, and 7 pages of colored drawings.
Decoration: seven colored drawings (fol. 6v-12v); the seven colored drawings were copied from a Beatus manuscript then in the Aragonese monastery of Montearagón--Cf. PML files.
Artist: Vincencio Juan de Lastanosa, who names himself as the copyist of the drawings on fol. 10.
Language
Spanish, Latin, and Greek
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