Suchergebnisse

Leaf from a Spanish legal manuscript. The manuscript was begun in Seville in 1604 and finished in 1641 in Mexico City. The vellum manuscript was begun by Alonso Perez, notary public of Santa Maria at the request of Alonso Lopez de Luna of Seville whose son Alonso de fonte Luna who was then in the public prison of Puerto de Santa Maria facing a charge of murder. His father (Alonso Lopez de Luna) hired Perez to demonstrate the noble lineage of the family in order to enjoy the judicial privileges of nobility. The page contains a large illuminated E and elaborate bordering, with initials in gold leaf. This document was once part of the library of the secretary of Maximilian I of Mexico (6 July 1832 - 19 June 1867).