Lot 713
Spanish certificate of nobility for Hernando Falciore of Torrubia. Manuscript on parchment. Granada, 14 May 1552.
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€ 1.500
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€ 1.000
Lot:
713
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Manuscripts and autographs
Carta executoria. Letter of nobility conferring the title of nobility upon Hernando Falciore of Torrubia. Spanish document on parchment. Granada, 14 May 1552. 310 x 220 mm. 33 folios. Text area: 235 x 140 mm, ruled throughout. 36 lines in uniform Rotunda script in black ink, written by a single chancery scribe. Calligraphically ornamented along the lower margin. Parchment cover. Cord binding. Bearing the original lead seal.
(Rubbed, stained, creased and with some defects to the edges. The back cover has been restored using the original material. A few leaves are singed at the bottom edge at the beginning. Some age, mould and handling stains. With minor defects to the edges.)
At the beginning, a decorative page featuring a large initial ‘D’ on a red background within a gold frame, containing a depiction in opaque colours of the Madonna of the Crescent Moon with the Child. The name of Charles V in gold capital letters on a blue background, with four inner panels in red featuring filigree decoration in white pen. At the top margin, a border of interlaced golden, blue and red acanthus leaves; in the centre, the Columba on a red ground, surrounded by a blue and a golden oval frame. On the left-hand side of the page is the recipient’s coat of arms with rich floral decoration. Along the bottom margin is a floral ornamentation in gold, red, blue and green springing from a lion’s head. The right-hand white margin features red floral decoration with golden thread-like tendrils. A total of 13 initials, mostly four-line ones, with gold letterforms appear in the text. - A letter of ennoblement from the reign of the Habsburg King Charles V of Spain, which elevates Hernando Falciore, a citizen of the town of Torrubia in what is now north-eastern Spain, to the nobility whilst simultaneously granting him a series of privileges. A typical example of the close connection between monarchical central authority, the formation of local elites and an increasingly formalised written administration in 16th-century Spain.
(Rubbed, stained, creased and with some defects to the edges. The back cover has been restored using the original material. A few leaves are singed at the bottom edge at the beginning. Some age, mould and handling stains. With minor defects to the edges.)
At the beginning, a decorative page featuring a large initial ‘D’ on a red background within a gold frame, containing a depiction in opaque colours of the Madonna of the Crescent Moon with the Child. The name of Charles V in gold capital letters on a blue background, with four inner panels in red featuring filigree decoration in white pen. At the top margin, a border of interlaced golden, blue and red acanthus leaves; in the centre, the Columba on a red ground, surrounded by a blue and a golden oval frame. On the left-hand side of the page is the recipient’s coat of arms with rich floral decoration. Along the bottom margin is a floral ornamentation in gold, red, blue and green springing from a lion’s head. The right-hand white margin features red floral decoration with golden thread-like tendrils. A total of 13 initials, mostly four-line ones, with gold letterforms appear in the text. - A letter of ennoblement from the reign of the Habsburg King Charles V of Spain, which elevates Hernando Falciore, a citizen of the town of Torrubia in what is now north-eastern Spain, to the nobility whilst simultaneously granting him a series of privileges. A typical example of the close connection between monarchical central authority, the formation of local elites and an increasingly formalised written administration in 16th-century Spain.