CARTA EXECUTORIA DE HIDALGUIA issued by Philip II in favour of Hernando Santiago Avila de Herrera, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [Jerez de la Frontera, 12 December 1572] 325 x 210mm, I + 91 leaves including the final 8 ruled and blank, collation: 1 4 8 , 2 3 6 , 3 7 (of 8, viii as pastedown), modern pencil foliation in lower corner of first 83 leaves, 34 lines written in brown ink in a gothic bookhand between 35 horizontals and 2 pairs of verticals ruled in red, cadels in upper and lower margins, one notary mark, pen-sketch of a girl's head on f.23, 31 LARGE ILLUMINATED INITIALS mostly 8-10 lines of gold renaissance forms against divided grounds of red and blue with white decoration, 11 ILLUMINATED INITIALS of 4 or 5 lines with staves of gold against grounds of red or blue with white decoration, TWO FACING FULL-PAGE MINIATURES (hairsides of parchment yellowed otherwise in excellent condition). Contemporary Spanish dark brown panelled sheep, gilt-stamped and blind-tooled, outer roll of roundels and arabesques, middle roll of trophies, innermost roll of foliage, central panel, corners and interstices symmetrically gilt with small tools including rampant lion, parrots, vases, warrior-headed roundels, arabesques, bagpipe-playing bears and dogs, remains of later silk ties (worn, spine wormed and slightly cracked, upper inner hinge split). Modern solander box. THE SUBJECTS OF THE FULL-PAGE ILLUMINATIONS ARE: fol.1v the Virgin and Child in Glory above a landscape with Sts Peter and Paul flanking a cartouche with the name of the King "Don Filipe", all within a burnished gold architectural frame with grotteschi and foliate decoration fol.2 a large achievement of arms beneath the motto "Por la gracia de Dios" and a scene of St James routing the Moors, all within an architectural frame of gold with highly coloured foliate decoration.
CARTA EXECUTORIA DE HIDALGUIA issued by Philip II in favour of Hernando Santiago Avila de Herrera, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [Jerez de la Frontera, 12 December 1572] 325 x 210mm, I + 91 leaves including the final 8 ruled and blank, collation: 1 4 8 , 2 3 6 , 3 7 (of 8, viii as pastedown), modern pencil foliation in lower corner of first 83 leaves, 34 lines written in brown ink in a gothic bookhand between 35 horizontals and 2 pairs of verticals ruled in red, cadels in upper and lower margins, one notary mark, pen-sketch of a girl's head on f.23, 31 LARGE ILLUMINATED INITIALS mostly 8-10 lines of gold renaissance forms against divided grounds of red and blue with white decoration, 11 ILLUMINATED INITIALS of 4 or 5 lines with staves of gold against grounds of red or blue with white decoration, TWO FACING FULL-PAGE MINIATURES (hairsides of parchment yellowed otherwise in excellent condition). Contemporary Spanish dark brown panelled sheep, gilt-stamped and blind-tooled, outer roll of roundels and arabesques, middle roll of trophies, innermost roll of foliage, central panel, corners and interstices symmetrically gilt with small tools including rampant lion, parrots, vases, warrior-headed roundels, arabesques, bagpipe-playing bears and dogs, remains of later silk ties (worn, spine wormed and slightly cracked, upper inner hinge split). Modern solander box. THE SUBJECTS OF THE FULL-PAGE ILLUMINATIONS ARE: fol.1v the Virgin and Child in Glory above a landscape with Sts Peter and Paul flanking a cartouche with the name of the King "Don Filipe", all within a burnished gold architectural frame with grotteschi and foliate decoration fol.2 a large achievement of arms beneath the motto "Por la gracia de Dios" and a scene of St James routing the Moors, all within an architectural frame of gold with highly coloured foliate decoration.
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