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: In Spanish.
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.
Binding: Bookblock laid in a contemporary vellum wrapper with an envelope flap.
Provenance: Gift of the Yale Library Associates in 1931.
Extent: ff. 54 : 325 x 226 (230 x 156) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Spanish

Genre: Manuscripts, Renaissance Spain 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Spain.
Granada (Spain)
Subject (Name): Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500-1558.
Subject (Topic): Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Nobility
Subjects: Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500-1558
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Nobility > Spain
Granada (Spain)
Spain > 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Carta Ejecutoria. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.