Western Manuscripts at Bridwell Library to 1650
Bridwell MS 47 [Carta executoria]
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[Carta executoria],  f.1v.
Title:[Carta executoria].
Language: Spanish.
Origin: Calcada, Spain: 1552.
Description: Illuminated manuscript on parchment. 18 leaves. 32 x 24 cm. Single column of 40 lines. Textblock: 21.5 x 15 cm.
Binding: Sixteenth-century limp vellum.
Comments: Written in Gothic batarde. "Sentencia e Carta Executoria de ydalguia de Francisco Gonzalez, vezino de Calcada."
Decoration: Fully illuminated opening leaf with historiated border. Lavish illuminated panels of royal arms, Hercules carrying columns, flowers, etc. Gold letters on purple field. Cadels throughout.
Provenance:
(1) Decherd Turner, Austin. (2) Bridwell Library, gift of Decherd Turner, 2001.
 



 

 
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