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United States Government Building,Supplement to St. Louis Globe-Democrat, May 1, 1904
Description: This reproduction print was issued as part of a Sunday supplement series by the St. Louis Globe-Democrat in 1904 to highlight the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
Member of: Artistic views of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, 1904 (Collection)
Resource Type: Still Image
Carta executoria de Nobleza for the Brothers Gonzalo Rodrigues and Francisco Lobo of Jerez de la Caballeros and their heirs.
Description: "The early printed binding waste contains extracts in Spanish from an illustrated life of Christ or a commentary on the Gospels, perhaps Montesino's Epistolas y Evangelios (Seville: Cromberger, editions printed in 1537, 1540, 1549). The woodcuts are close to those used by Cromberger for his Retablo de la vida de cristo by Juan de Padilla (1518), though Padilla's text is in verse. The sewing guards (also binder's waste) are from a different text with a different typeface, also illustrated, and on one fragment the (printing?) date 1508 can be seen.nnFor very similar bindings, see Encuadernaciones Españolas (Madrid, 1934), plate 25, 3dated Granada, 1567 (with the deer and shell tools), and Davis Gift 400, dated Granada, c. 1570 (with the deer, bird-on-a-branch, corner fleurons and vase tools).","The file copy of this carta executoria is still in the archives of Granada (Archivo de la Real Chancilleria de Granada, E.301-47-11).",Folio (c. 310 x 208mm.), ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, [1 (blank)], 28, [3 (with later additions)] leaves, sewn in a single quire, thick coloured thread in the central fold (probably to hold a seal, now lacking), first double-page opening illuminated, on the left-hand side the lettering "Don Philipe" with portraits of saints and the king and some kneeling courtiers (courtiers slightly defaced), on the right "Por la gracia de Dios" with a knight on horseback defeating the Moors and a large armorial, numerous gold initials on coloured grounds, on fol. 20 portraits of saints and a group of nobles (one carrying a musket), on fol. 28 an inhabited gold initial with a nobleman in fine clothing, signed at the end by Torres and Salgado on behalf of the king, contemporary Granadan binding of dark brown goatskin with gilt plateresque decoration, including stamps of lions, deer, birds and shells, roll-tooled borders with military motifs, boards comprised of early printed leaves pasted together (and now come apart), probably printed by Cromberger of Seville, occasional rubbing of illumination, pastedowns lifted and binder's waste now partly pulled apart, spine defective at head and crudely repaired at foot, lacking 4 pairs of blue silk ties.,Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A444284/datastream/PDF/view
Member of: Cartas Ejecutorias
Resource Type: Text
Carta Ejecutoria de Hidalguia Dada a Pedimento de Juan de Escalona y Rodrigo y Andres, Pedro y Diego de Escalona hermanos y vecinos de la villa de Berce
Description: Stored in blue case (On the spine: "Ejecutoria, Mexico, 1609." Carta ejecutoria in vellum, with limp vellum binding (red and gold chord on the spine). Folio 1v illuminated. Decorated initial (Capital D) with family portrait of the donors with Virgin Mary and Christ Child, and the coat of arms of the family in the lower half of the folio. Miniature of King Philip II on folio 27r. 31.5 x 22 cm
Member of: Cartas Ejecutorias
Resource Type: Text
