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CARTA EXECUTORIA DE HIDALGUIA of Juan Perez de Zubiaurre and Maria de Zubiaurre, issued by Philip II, in Spanish, illuminated manuscript on vellum, Granada, 30 July 1596
310 x 215mm. ii + 70 leaves, likely lacking original title-page, supplied instead with a bifolium from another carta executoria with the coat of arms of Fernan Rodriguez of Madrid painted by the renowned Spanish Renaissance artist Diego de Urbina de Ampuero, 34 lines, ruled space: 240 x 130mm, 16 large illuminated initials on coloured grounds and one historiated initial with portrait of Philip II (some marginal cockling and staining). Old red velvet over wooden boards. Provenance: A confirmation of nobility, or hidalguia, with all the perks and exemptions that come with it for Juan Perez de Zubiaurre and his sister Maria de Zubiaurre. This may be the same Basque merchant Juan Perez de Zubiaurre who is listed in contemporary accounts as trading in metals with the Indies in the late 1590s — Thomas Stainton, May 29, 1874: inscription inside upper pastedown
[With]: CARTA EXECUTORIA DE HIDALGUIA of Pedro de Rosales, issued by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, Valladolid, 20 December 1547. 315 x 210mm. 38 leaves (the final 5 blank), complete, 40 lines of text, ruled space: 215 x 120mm, opening leaf with full-page border inhabited by grotesques and the coat of arms of Aragon and Castile, headings in gold on a red ground throughout (some cockling and staining). Old red velvet over wooden boards.
310 x 215mm. ii + 70 leaves, likely lacking original title-page, supplied instead with a bifolium from another carta executoria with the coat of arms of Fernan Rodriguez of Madrid painted by the renowned Spanish Renaissance artist Diego de Urbina de Ampuero, 34 lines, ruled space: 240 x 130mm, 16 large illuminated initials on coloured grounds and one historiated initial with portrait of Philip II (some marginal cockling and staining). Old red velvet over wooden boards. Provenance: A confirmation of nobility, or hidalguia, with all the perks and exemptions that come with it for Juan Perez de Zubiaurre and his sister Maria de Zubiaurre. This may be the same Basque merchant Juan Perez de Zubiaurre who is listed in contemporary accounts as trading in metals with the Indies in the late 1590s — Thomas Stainton, May 29, 1874: inscription inside upper pastedown
[With]: CARTA EXECUTORIA DE HIDALGUIA of Pedro de Rosales, issued by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, Valladolid, 20 December 1547. 315 x 210mm. 38 leaves (the final 5 blank), complete, 40 lines of text, ruled space: 215 x 120mm, opening leaf with full-page border inhabited by grotesques and the coat of arms of Aragon and Castile, headings in gold on a red ground throughout (some cockling and staining). Old red velvet over wooden boards.
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