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Illuminated & Illustrated on Every Page — An Amazing

16th-Century NEW WORLD Manuscript

García Palomo, Alonso. Manuscript, “Executorya de Alonso Garzya Palomo en que por ella se declara no poder ser preso por deuda cyvyl por ser caballero hijodalgo y dezyndiente de tales.” In Spanish, on vellum and paper. Mexico City, 1591. Folio, 68 ff.
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The most elaborately illuminated and illustrated 16th-century Mexican carta de hidalguía that we have ever seen.

signed by Viceroy Luis de Velasco

an exquisite and different four-sided border in color of vines, flowers, insects, mammals, birds, and fruit, highlighted with gold

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“it is a beautiful piece of Mexican 16th-century illumination.”

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