(SPANISH PATENT OF NOBILITY.) Sentencias y Carta Executoria de Hidalguia de Francisco de Palencia. ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT IN SPANISH,

written in neat book hand in black ink with some headings in black with large calligraphic initials and others in gold alternately on blue or red ground, 28 lines, recto and verso, ON VELLUM. FINE FULL-PAGE MINIATURE IN COLORS AND GOLD showing Madonna and child seated on a cloud flanked by kneeling members of the royal family (above) and the arms of the grantee (below), all within cartouche border incorporating floral urns, birds, winged busts, etc., with name of King of Arms at bottom; full-page pen-and-ink outline drawing of the arms of the grantee on front blank. Signatures and attestations at end. 68 leaves, the first and last blank. 310x215 mm, contemporary Spanish sheep gilt, rubbed; illuminated initial at end obliterated. Medina del Campo, 7 March 1601.