ILLUMINATED CARTA EXECUTORIA., PHILIP III, KING OF SPAIN. 1578-1621.
Illuminated manuscript on vellum. Granada: 1592.
PHILIP III, KING OF SPAIN. 1578-1621. Illuminated manuscript on vellum. Granada: 1592.
Being a patent of nobility granted to Pedro de Angulo, with several notarial attestations at the end, 295 x 210 mm. 98 (of 99) + i vellum leaves. Collation: i1 (lacking) ii-v12 vi8 vii-ix12 x6. 34 long lines, written in brown ink between 35 horizontal and 2 pairs of vertical bounding lines ruled in blue ink, written area: 230 x 130 mm. 37 large ornamental initials in liquid gold on colored grounds modelled in white. Major sections of the text introduced by several lines of ornamental display script, lesser divisions distinguished by large cadel initials, calligraphic flourishes in upper and lower margins. (Lacking the illuminated frontispiece that would have presented the armorials of the recipient; dampstains to upper, fore, and lower edges, sometimes invading the text; several initials with smudging or offsetting of pigment; natural flaws in the vellum in the blank margins of three leaves.) Original binding of gold- and blind-tooled brown leather, the red silk curtain that protected the frontispiece retained; four pairs of red and blue silk ties, braided silk cord visible in quire vi and at tail of volume (lacking seal), in a custom morocco and cloth case.
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Illuminated manuscript on vellum. Granada: 1592.
PHILIP III, KING OF SPAIN. 1578-1621. Illuminated manuscript on vellum. Granada: 1592.
Being a patent of nobility granted to Pedro de Angulo, with several notarial attestations at the end, 295 x 210 mm. 98 (of 99) + i vellum leaves. Collation: i1 (lacking) ii-v12 vi8 vii-ix12 x6. 34 long lines, written in brown ink between 35 horizontal and 2 pairs of vertical bounding lines ruled in blue ink, written area: 230 x 130 mm. 37 large ornamental initials in liquid gold on colored grounds modelled in white. Major sections of the text introduced by several lines of ornamental display script, lesser divisions distinguished by large cadel initials, calligraphic flourishes in upper and lower margins. (Lacking the illuminated frontispiece that would have presented the armorials of the recipient; dampstains to upper, fore, and lower edges, sometimes invading the text; several initials with smudging or offsetting of pigment; natural flaws in the vellum in the blank margins of three leaves.) Original binding of gold- and blind-tooled brown leather, the red silk curtain that protected the frontispiece retained; four pairs of red and blue silk ties, braided silk cord visible in quire vi and at tail of volume (lacking seal), in a custom morocco and cloth case.
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