File:Sentencias y carta executoria de hidalguia a pedimiento de Alonso Ximenez de Canizares vezino de la ciudad de Guadalajara (IA 1923 17 1).pdf

Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, 1923‑17‑1. Valladolid, Spain, 1574 May 28. This manuscript is a carta executoria issued under the name of Philip II of Spain in favor of Alonso Ximenez de Canizares, of Guadalajara, in response to his pleito de hidalguia (litigation to establish noble status), issued in Valladolid and dated 28 May 1574. The first page of the text is decorated with a large historiated initial depicting Canizares and his wife Maria de Zuniga, a coat of arms, and a full illuminated border; the rest of the text is almost undecorated, with text written in Spanish rotunda script and section divisions simply indicated with a word or two in larger letters. The manuscript is on parchment in one large quire and has a limp parchment wrapper; the end of the text refers to a colored cord (still present, fols. 20v-21r) and a lead seal (no longer present) (f. 39r). The text is followed by signatures (f. 39r) and a later, probably early seventeenth-century, notarial inscription also concerning the Canizares family (f. 39v).