Walters Ms. W.736, Certification of Arms and Genealogical Treatise
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
This manuscript is a legal certification of coats of arms and a genealogical treatise composed in Spain in 1782. It was compiled by Don Ramon Zazo of Ortega, historian and king at arms to Charles III, king of Spain, who signed the work on fol. 25v. The manuscript contains heraldic information, history, and genealogy of the Spanish families of Despuig or Puig, Pallas, Gelabert of Coscoll, and Mora. It was made for a descendent of these families: Don Antonio de Puig y Gelabert de Cascoll, Doctor of Laws and Advocate of the Royal Audience of Catalonia. It is decorated with two notable full-page heraldic miniatures, five heraldic text miniatures, illuminated initials, a fold-out decorated genealogical table, and four illuminated text headings. The illuminations use a palette of bright colors and an abundance of gold. Interleaves of crimson silk cover each miniature. The manuscript still retains two paper seals of the city of Madrid, one of which encloses a very small leaf painted with the coats of the Puig family.
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Description
Alternative title | Genealogy and Heraldy |
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Type of resource | mixed material |
Form | parchment; Parchment of medium thickness, well prepared on both sides |
Place | Madrid (Spain) |
Date created | [ca. 1782] |
Issuance | monographic |
Digital origin | reformatted digital |
Foliation Statement | Foliation: i+27+i |
Dimensions | 16.1 x 10.0cm |
Writing Block | 17.2 x 10.2cm |
Foliation | Paper flyleaves; red silk before or after the illuminations; fol. 27 is a fold-out chart |
Collation: Formula | 1(6), 2-7(2), 8(6), 9-10(2), 11(3) |
Collation: Notes | Quires begin on fols. 1(1), 3(2), 5(3), 7(4), 9(5), 11(6), 13(7), 15(8), 21(9), 23(10), 25(11) |
Signatures | Signatures in cursive brown ink throughout the manuscript |
Catchwords | None |
Layout: Columns | 1 |
Layout: Ruled Lines | 20 21 |
Layout: Notes | Single vertical and double horizontal lead ruling |
Hand Note | Chancery; headings in roman capitals |
Binding | Eighteenth-century Spanish crimson velvet over pasteboard; gilded fore-edges |
Creators/Contributors
Author | Don Ramon Zazo y Ôrtega | |
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Author | Don Ramon Zazo of Ortega | |
Scribe | Don Ramon Zazo of Ortega |
Bibliographic information
Language | The primary language in this manuscript is Spanish; Castilian. |
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Decoration Note | Two full-page heraldic miniatures; five heraldic text miniatures; ten illuminated initials; one fold-out decorated genealogical table; four illuminated text headings; headings in roman capitals in gold ink; text in black ink within double three-red lines border |
Decoration Note | fol. 1r Coat of arms of Spanish royal families Full-page miniature |
Decoration Note | fol. 2r Frontispiece signed Don Ramon Zazo y Ortega with seal of Charles III, king of Spain Full-page miniature |
Decoration Note | fol. 3r Initial "A" Decorated headpiece |
Decoration Note | fol. 7v Initial "P" and coat of arms of Bernardo Despuig Decorated headpiece |
Decoration Note | fol. 8v Initial "E" and coat of arms of the house of Despuig or Puig Decorated headpiece |
Decoration Note | fol. 11r Initial "D" Decorated headpiece |
Decoration Note | fol. 13r Initial "P" and coat of arms of the house of Pallas Decorated headpiece |
Decoration Note | fol. 15v Initial "D" Decorated headpiece |
Decoration Note | fol. 16v Initial "P" and coat of arms of the house of Gelabert Decorated headpiece |
Decoration Note | fol. 18r Initial "D" Decorated headpiece |
Decoration Note | fol. 20v Initial "P" and coat of arms of the house of Mora Decorated headpiece |
Decoration Note | fol. 22r Initial "Y" Decorated initial "Y," 5 lines |
Date Note | 25 November-2 December, 1782 CE |
Provenance | The manuscript was made in Spain for Don Antonio de Puig and Gelabert de Coscoll, 1782; inscription on back flyleaf reads, "Librea para Lacayos de la casa de Puig" |
Provenance | Olivier Henry Perkins; bookplate on front pastedown |
Provenance | William Randolph Hearst (1864-1951), New York and California, owned the manuscript before 1941 |
Provenance | Mr. M. Hago, New York, February 1941, bought the manuscript from Gammer Galleries at Gimbels (lot. no. 1433, article 63) |
Acquisition | Walters Art Museum, March 8, 1948, by purchase from Jack Grosfield |
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Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/tf305vt1761 |
Location | The Walters Art Museum, 600 North Charles Street, Baltimore MD 21201. |
Location | W.736 |
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