Shelfmark
MS 271
Main entry--corporate name
Title
Carta executoria de Don Luis de Mercado. manuscript.
Varying form of title
Other title: Spanish grant of arms.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Granada, Spain, 1573 March 3.
Physical description
1 volume (70 leaves) : parchment ; 33 x 23 cm.
Note
Devised title taken from sale catalogue entry.
Note
Title designated by M.R. James in the interleaved James catalogue (Eton MS 932): Spanish grant of arms.
Note
Date and place of production taken from end of text, fol. 69r.
Note
Foliated in ink on the verso.
Note
Pages ruled in red ink throughout.
Note
Signed on front leaf, on fol. 69r and fol. 70r in different hands.
Note
The double spread of fols. 1 and 2 are illuminated with an illustration of the Crucifixion (fol. 1v) and of the arms of Don Luis de Mercado (fol. 2r). Both framed by grotesque decorations with putti and baskets of fruit.
Note
Illuminated initials with arabesque decoration on blue and red grounds throughout text.
Note
Sale catalogue entry (lot no. 216) pasted onto front pastedown mentions a large lead seal of Philip II of Spain; not found with the manuscript, 2018.
Note
Booklabel of John Hely-Hutchinson of Chippenham Lodge, Ely on front flyleaf. According to the James interleaved catalogue, Eton MS 932, purchased by Hely-Hutchinson from Sotheby's in February 1948 through Maggs, and presented to Eton College Library in June 1954. The printed bookplate records that it was bequeathed to Eton College in March 1950.
Binding
Contemporary Spanish green brown calf; blind tooled concentric frames of decorative rolls, the first of heads in roundels; the second of foliage, and the third of military trophies; between the frames are gold tooled ornamends of lions, birds, shells, unicorns, and dogs; blind tooled double fillet hatching on spine, with gold tooled ornament in each compartment; four raised bands; gilt edges; red, yellow, green and white silk cords between fols. 21 and 22, and fols. 56 and 57; traces of blue ties at head, tail and edges.
Subject
Philip, 1527 - 1598 II, King of Spain
Subject
Heraldry Spain Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Hely-Hutchinson, J. W., 1882 - 1955 former owner.
Added entry--place
Spain Granada
Language code
spa
Identifier
B46695