CARTA EXECUTORIA DE HIDALGUIA, issued by Philip V, King of Spain, in favour of Francisco Juan Gaitan Reguilon and Francisco Reguilon y Cuevas. ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM. [Valladolid, 26 September 1708] 303 x 195mm, 200 leaves (including 20 final blanks), 23 or 24 lines, written in black ink in an italic hand, each page encadrée with red and black rules, the ink-stamped armorial seal of Philip V and a notary's endorsement in the lower margin of each recto, 179 HISTORIATED INITIALS, of four or five lines, each consisting of a gold capital superimposed on a scene with a landscape or a figure, 8 LARGE HISTORIATED INITIALS, each accompanied by 3 or 4 lines of text in gold capitals on alternating red or blue grounds, 58 additional single lines of gold capitals on red or blue grounds introducing sections of text, 2 FULL-PAGE MINIATURES (ff.1-14 somewhat darkened with waterstains in the lower margin). Original red velvet over wooden boards with large lead seal (90 mm) of Philip V suspended from a double cord braided of crimson, green, and yellow silk; crimson silk doublures and 5 original crimson silk interleaves (the velvet somewhat worn and stained, slight worming of spine and doublures, wanting centerpiece and cornerpiece bosses). THE SUBJECTS OF THE FULL-PAGE MINIATURES ARE: folio 1v The Reguilon family praying before the Virgin of Guadalupe folio 2 Coat of arms.
CARTA EXECUTORIA DE HIDALGUIA, issued by Philip V, King of Spain, in favour of Francisco Juan Gaitan Reguilon and Francisco Reguilon y Cuevas. ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM. [Valladolid, 26 September 1708] 303 x 195mm, 200 leaves (including 20 final blanks), 23 or 24 lines, written in black ink in an italic hand, each page encadrée with red and black rules, the ink-stamped armorial seal of Philip V and a notary's endorsement in the lower margin of each recto, 179 HISTORIATED INITIALS, of four or five lines, each consisting of a gold capital superimposed on a scene with a landscape or a figure, 8 LARGE HISTORIATED INITIALS, each accompanied by 3 or 4 lines of text in gold capitals on alternating red or blue grounds, 58 additional single lines of gold capitals on red or blue grounds introducing sections of text, 2 FULL-PAGE MINIATURES (ff.1-14 somewhat darkened with waterstains in the lower margin). Original red velvet over wooden boards with large lead seal (90 mm) of Philip V suspended from a double cord braided of crimson, green, and yellow silk; crimson silk doublures and 5 original crimson silk interleaves (the velvet somewhat worn and stained, slight worming of spine and doublures, wanting centerpiece and cornerpiece bosses). THE SUBJECTS OF THE FULL-PAGE MINIATURES ARE: folio 1v The Reguilon family praying before the Virgin of Guadalupe folio 2 Coat of arms.
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