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Carta ejecutoria de hidalguia for the Pujalte family.

Accession number
MS W.39
Object title
Carta ejecutoria de hidalguia for the Pujalte family.
Display Date
1777.
Created
Madrid, Spain, 1777.
Binding
18th-century Spanish maroon morocco, gold tooled with border of floral and other ornamental motifs, center design of flower stamps, gilt edges, in marbled-paper-covered, leather-edged slipcase by JPW.
Credit line
Bequest of Julia Parker Wightman, 1994.
Description
30 leaves (1 column, 18 lines), bound : vellum and paper, ill. ; 295 x 200 mm
Provenance
Pujalte family; Basiliso Saez y Pellies (Perez) of Murcia (inscriptions on front and end flyleaves); no. 1600 U.D. (dealer's label on front pastedown); Harry A. Levinson, Beverly Hills, Ca.; purchased by Julia Parker Wightman from Levinson (?) in 1964; JPW 3699; Julia Parker Wightman Bequest in 1994.
Notes
Ms. letters patent of nobility written and illuminated in Madrid, Spain, Aug. 30, 1777.
Decoration: 2 full-page frontispieces: on fol. 1 an elaborate coat of arms; on fol. 2 a full page portrait of the individual who signs the letter of patent: Don Ramon Zazo y Ortega, Minister of War? (Rey de Armas Universal) under Charles III, king of Spain, 5 painted initials decorated with landscape and buildings; each text page is framed with a full border composed of floral motifs. Stamp of Charles V on the portrait page, two blind stamps on official paper, cut out and glued onto the pages bearing the signature of Ramon Zazo y Ortega and the notarizations. On last paper flyleaf, birth record of Antonio Pujarte Castillo, 14 January 1853, at 9pm, and Antonio Jose Pujarte Castillo, 1 November 1858.
Textiles: 2 orange silk protective sheets (curtain) laid in before the miniature pages.
Watermark: a composite armorial watermark similar to Heawood 773-774, dated Cadiz 1766, or 1775 - Lisbon 1759.
Script
italic
Language
Spanish
Century
Classification