En la gran ciudad de Mexico, de la Nueva Espana a ocho dias del mes de mayo año de nacimiento de nuestro Saluador Iesu Christo de mil y seiscie[n]tos y nueue años, para ante don Garci Lopez del Espinar corregidor por Su Magestad en esta dicha ciudad, y su jurisdicion, y en presencia de mi Alonso Bernal escriuano publico del numero della, Luys Nuñez Perez de Meñaca ensayador, y fundidor mayor de la casa de moneda deste reyno, hizo presentacio[n] de vna carta executoria de Su Magestad escripta en pergamino, y librada de los sus alcaldes de los hijosdalgo, que residen en la ciudad de Granada, y refrendada de Domingo de Otaola su secretario de camara, y de la dicha audiencia, y sellada con su real sello de plomo pendiente en filos de seda à colores

Creator

Bernal, Alonso Philip Núñez Pérez de Meñaca, Luis

Place

[Mexico City?

Publisher

s.n

Date

1609]

Notes

The author was from a family of converted Jews and, at the time of this printing, had been made assayer and chief founder of the mint of Spain. This document is a patent of nobility, first issued in Granada, and then issued in Mexico for official purposes

Signatures: A-X² chi1 (chi1 verso blank)

Leaves [1] verso-40 verso contain the decree of enoblement by King Philip III of Spain

Publication date of 1609 from first paragraph of text

Full page copper plate of the author's crest on frontispiece with the motto "In silentio et spe"

John Carter Brown Library copy has ms. certification of the scribe Alonso Bernal following text on leaf 41 recto and his name and other names in ms. hand on leaf 42 verso

Woodcut initials

Title from first paragraph of text

Local notes

John Carter Brown Library copy has annotation "No. 14" in upper right hand corner of leaf [1] recto

John Carter Brown Library copy has woodcut initials on leaves 36 verso and 40 verso hand colored and gilded

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Bromsen Fund

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: the markings within the text make this out to be the author's personal copy; a scribal flourish appears at the foot of each page

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full sheep with gold embossed on front and rear boards; housed in burgundy cloth covered clamshell box measuring 32 cm. in height