CARTA EXECUTORIA DE HIDALGUIA of Juan Moreno de Navarrete, issued by Carlos I (Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor), in Spanish, illuminated manuscript on vellum, Logroño, 9 November 1520.
CARTA EXECUTORIA DE HIDALGUIA of Juan Moreno de Navarrete, issued by Carlos I (Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor), in Spanish, illuminated manuscript on vellum, Logroño, 9 November 1520. 320 x 230mm. 18 leaves, FULL BORDER WITH FOLIATE INITIAL opening the text, SIX LARGE INITIALS ON GILT GROUND of 6 to 8 lines, first issued at Valencia on the 29 October 1520 (some rubbing with losses to the gilt and pigment, wear to edges). Original limp vellum, silk cord (staining, tattering to edges). Provenance : gift of General Truman Seymour (1824-1891, Union commander and artist), 1874, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Some years after this conferral of noble status to the Navarrete of Logroño in 1520, a son of the family, the Spanish Mannerist painter Juan Fernández Navarrete (1526-1579), would win them further distinction, working for Philip II as king's painter executing pictures for the royal palace and monastery of El Escorial.
CARTA EXECUTORIA DE HIDALGUIA of Juan Moreno de Navarrete, issued by Carlos I (Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor), in Spanish, illuminated manuscript on vellum, Logroño, 9 November 1520.
CARTA EXECUTORIA DE HIDALGUIA of Juan Moreno de Navarrete, issued by Carlos I (Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor), in Spanish, illuminated manuscript on vellum, Logroño, 9 November 1520. 320 x 230mm. 18 leaves, FULL BORDER WITH FOLIATE INITIAL opening the text, SIX LARGE INITIALS ON GILT GROUND of 6 to 8 lines, first issued at Valencia on the 29 October 1520 (some rubbing with losses to the gilt and pigment, wear to edges). Original limp vellum, silk cord (staining, tattering to edges). Provenance : gift of General Truman Seymour (1824-1891, Union commander and artist), 1874, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Some years after this conferral of noble status to the Navarrete of Logroño in 1520, a son of the family, the Spanish Mannerist painter Juan Fernández Navarrete (1526-1579), would win them further distinction, working for Philip II as king's painter executing pictures for the royal palace and monastery of El Escorial.
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