Extent: fols. 104; parchment; 310 x 215 (235 x 130) mm
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Script: Rounded Spanish Gothic textura. Final two leaves in procesal encadenada script. Decoration: Five full-page frontispiece illuminations, large illuminated initials throughout. Final initial, now damaged, is inhabited by a man wearing a black hat and a white ruff. Decoration: First full-page frontispiece states "Don Philippe Quarto D'Este Nombre" in gold lettering on red grounds, with blue stripes in between lines of text. The initial "D" is gold on a purple ground with botanical decoration and a bird in the center. Decoration: Second frontispiece features the Virgin Mary in majesty and Saints Peter and Paul at her feet, all on a highly decorative gold ground. Inscriptions read: "Tota pulchra es ami mea et macula non est inte" and "Por la gracía de díos" Decoration: Third frontispiece features Santiago Matamoros (St. James the Moor-Slayer) atop a white horse with portraits of a saint in each corner. Inscription reads "Rey de Castilla" Decoration: Fourth frontispiece features Jesus on the cros with a family of four (presumably the family that is the subject of the carta) in late-16th century clothing praying at his feet. Highly decorative border on a gold ground. Inscriptions read: "Christus pro nobis impiis mortuus est" and "De Leon DAragon" Decoration: Fifth frontispiece features a large coat of arms on a highly decorated ground with the inscription "De Las Dos Sicilias". Decoration: The coat of arms is divided into six sections: top left (grey stripes alternating with red and yellow patterned stripes), top right (gold sun and stars on red ground), second top left (red ground with gold castles surrounding a gold star on a blue rectangle), Decoration: second top right (two silver stripes with gold suns, with a blue stripe between), bottom (silver stripes with gold suns, with blue stripes between), and middle (Santiago Matamoros riding his white horse) Binding: Full red velvet, rubbed, red silk pastedowns. Silk ties missing, covers and endleaves wormed. Colophon: Yo Franco [Gunon?] Castillos de cam^a y may[or] / de los hijosdalgo del aud[ienci]a y gan[?]a Del Rey / n[uest]ro S[eño]r la fice [e]screvir por m[anda]do con acu[erdo] de sus al / caldes de los hijosdalgo de la [?]. Provenance: Transferred from the Williams College Library, 1958-1959. Manuscript document, issued by Philip IV of Spain, formally acknowledging the rank of hidalgo (gentleman) of Luis de Soto Morillo and Francisco de Soto of Belalcázar, Córdoba. Origin: Written at the Royal Chancellery of Granada (Real Chancillería de Granada). Witnesses include: Geronimo Gomez de Senabria, Don Antonio de Riva
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