Carta ejecutoria.

Description

Title: Carta ejecutoria.
Published / Created: 1550
Publication Place: Spain,
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of Carta Ejecutoria, or letter of nobility, issued in the names of Lope Goncalez de Valdes and Pedro Goncalez de Valdes, by the authority of Charles V, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, dated 12 September 1550 in Granada. Seal missing.
Description: Binding: Bookblock laid in a contemporary vellum wrapper with an envelope flap.
Gift of the Yale Library Associates in 1931.
Script: Written in round gothic by one scribe who added decorative designs in upper and lower margins. Addition on ff. 52v-53v by Don Antonio Larrillo is in a similar hand.
The ornamentation of the codex is poorly executed. Folio 1v: miniatures representing the crowning of the Virgin (upper left) and the arms of the Goncalez de Valdes family; f. 2r: miniature of Justice, with scales (lower half of page). Both folios have elaborate decorative borders in gold and colors that are badly rubbed. Folios 4v and 52r have historiated initials with portraits of a seated king (Rey Don Iohan?). Twenty-five small painted initials, 7- to 5-line; gold letters with black pen designs on white-decorated blue and dark red backgrounds.
Extent: ff. 54 : parchment ; 325 x 226 (230 x 156) mm.
Extent of Digitization: Completely digitized
Language: Spanish; Castilian

Format: text
Genre: Decorated initials
Illuminated manuscripts
Inhabited initials
Manuscripts
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Geographic): Granada (Spain)
Subject (Topic): Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Nobility--Spain

Access: Public
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Citation: Carta Ejecutoria. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 35.

Orbis Record: 9801256
Object ID (OID): 11684583
More Information: https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.ms035.htm