Extent: fols. 24, 4; parchment; 310 x 215 (238 x 148) mm
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Script: Rounded Spanish Gothic textura. Final six leaves in procesal encadenada script. Decoration: Two full-page frontispiece illustrations, depicting the Virgin enthroned with Christ, above a small coat of arms, flanked by two small kneeling male figures; and a large coat of arms occupying the entire leaf. Decoration: A piece of red silk (contemporary?) is bound between the two illustrations. First leaf of text with decorated initial, border, and a third coat of arms. 13 smaller initials in gilt and colors. Binding: Full red velvet, clasps missing. Block-printed endpapers, paper flyleaves. Clasps missing, decorations somewhat rubbed. Colophon: Yo Juan Lopez Bravo escriuano mayor de los hijosdalgo del / audi[enci]a del Rey n[uest]ro S[eñor] la fize escrevir por su mano dado / en acuerdo de sus alldes de los hijosdalgo. Provenance: Transferred from the Williams College Library, 1958-1959. Manuscript document, issued by Philip II, king of Spain and Portugal, also of Naples and Sicily, lord of the Netherlands and titular king of England and Ireland during his marriage to Mary I (1554-1558), formally acknowledging the rank of hidalgo (gentleman) of Diego Herrera Pimentel of Verchules (Bérchules, Granada). Origin: Written at the Royal Chancellery of Granada (Real Chancillería de Granada)
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