Title from summary line on verso of leaf [26]. Text in a single elegant rotunda script in black; red-ruled, with double-ruled red bounding lines; added document on leaf [1] in a different hand; 40 lines of text per page; opening words in gold letters on red compartmentalized background; each section of testimony by a witness is highlighted by the phrase "El dicho ..." in gold on a red background; smaller gold initials on a red background... Verso of leaf [1] illustrated with a large initial "D" at beginning of text in purple, decorated with two grotesque faces in profile on either side; interior of letter is a vignette in brilliant colors of the king, Carlos V, and a fellow traveler kneeling before the Virgin and Child; below is a colored painting of the coat of arms of the Fernández Matanco family; other compartments of red and... Water damage to several leaves, with some loss of text. Former owner: Henry Probasco. Forms part of the Henry Probasco Collection at the Newberry Library.
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