NOBILITY LICENSE OF DOM JOSEF. Manuel de Campos y Velazquez. [Signed by:] Don Ramon Zazo Y Ortega - Don Vicente De Villasenor Y Acuna. Illuminated manuscript on parchment, Madrid, 8 Agosto 1780.
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Description
Folio, mm. 312x213; Contemporary full calf binding, gilded frame on covers, signs of joints, marbled end papers.
BEAUTIFUL ILLUMINATED PARCHMENT MANUSCRIPT.
The nobility certificate is signed by Don Ramon Ortega y Zazo, general chief of the armies of King Charles III, and is countersigned by Don Vicente de Villasenor Y Acuna , which appears the blazon in the third paper, a sheet of great dramatic effect, adorned with allegorical figures, ships and arms.
The document, which opens with the great illuminated sheet with the Arbol Familia de los Campos, illustrates the genealogy of the family with the biography of the 16 ancestors of Don Josef Manuel de Campos y Velazquez, from the head of Sancho Antolin family, parented with the famous El Cid Campeador and coming from Burgos.
This valiant knight was awarded the title of Los Campos from King Alfonso VI, for services rendered as ambassador to the Moorish King of Toledo and for the courage and the exceptional skills in weapons demonstrated on the battlefield: the obverse of the card 31 is described and explained, in red letters, the coat of arms of the family de Campos, where it represented the epic action he accomplished that motivated the title.
The work, adorned with six large figured initials with glimpses of landscapes and city views, as well as being an important document of heraldry and genealogy is an important historical source, since by the biography of the seventeen members of the noble family, recounts the history of Spain from the eleventh to the eighteenth century: it contains interesting information on the role played by the knights of the family De Campos in the secular business of the Reconquista. Another genealogy Zazo y Ortega, 1776, is present at the Lilly Collection at the University of Indiana.
Nice specimen.
BEAUTIFUL ILLUMINATED PARCHMENT MANUSCRIPT.
The nobility certificate is signed by Don Ramon Ortega y Zazo, general chief of the armies of King Charles III, and is countersigned by Don Vicente de Villasenor Y Acuna , which appears the blazon in the third paper, a sheet of great dramatic effect, adorned with allegorical figures, ships and arms.
The document, which opens with the great illuminated sheet with the Arbol Familia de los Campos, illustrates the genealogy of the family with the biography of the 16 ancestors of Don Josef Manuel de Campos y Velazquez, from the head of Sancho Antolin family, parented with the famous El Cid Campeador and coming from Burgos.
This valiant knight was awarded the title of Los Campos from King Alfonso VI, for services rendered as ambassador to the Moorish King of Toledo and for the courage and the exceptional skills in weapons demonstrated on the battlefield: the obverse of the card 31 is described and explained, in red letters, the coat of arms of the family de Campos, where it represented the epic action he accomplished that motivated the title.
The work, adorned with six large figured initials with glimpses of landscapes and city views, as well as being an important document of heraldry and genealogy is an important historical source, since by the biography of the seventeen members of the noble family, recounts the history of Spain from the eleventh to the eighteenth century: it contains interesting information on the role played by the knights of the family De Campos in the secular business of the Reconquista. Another genealogy Zazo y Ortega, 1776, is present at the Lilly Collection at the University of Indiana.
Nice specimen.
