Textual Manuscript[Action for legal remedy based on the privilege of nobility]
Personal name
Main title
- [Action for legal remedy based on the privilege of nobility].
Published/Created
- 1599.
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Description
- [1], 174 leaves, bound (the 1st leaf blank) ; 35 cm.
LC classification
- KGF138.G88 G88 1599
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LC Subjects
- Gutierrez de Peralta, Juan, active 1598--Trials, litigation, etc.
- Peralta, Alonso de, active 1598--Trials, litigation, etc.
- Debtor and creditor--Mexico.
- Privileges and immunities--Spain.
- Privileges and immunities--Mexico.
- Titles of honor and nobility--Spain.
- Nobility--Spain.
- Manuscripts, Spanish--Washington (D.C.)
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Notes
- Ms.
- In Spanish.
- Ornate certified copy of official transcript of proceedings in the successful action brought in Mexico City in 1598 before the royal magistrate (corregidor) by Juan Gutierrez de Peralta and Alonso de Peralta for release from prison and relief from other pressures to which they were subjected because of debt; includes record of the action by Lorenço Sanchez which had led to their imprisonment, and proofs of the nobility status (hidalguía) on which their release was eventually based; the proofs include records of proceedings which took place in Spain in 1518 and in later years in which the nobility of the Peralta line was established.
- Begins (illuminated leaf 1a): En la Ciudad de Mexico a veynte y dos días del mes de dicienbre [sic] de mill e quínientos y noventa ocho años ante el Doctor Monforte ...
- Purchased from Stechert, Paris, in 1939 (LL 566489); for a time identified as MS P3 in LC Law Library.
- Written in Mexico City by Rodrigo del Campo, official scribe; copy completed and certified in 1599.
- Foliated in modern pencil.
- Illuminated initials include one with col. portrait of Emperor Charles V (leaf 99a). Rebacked contemporary binding; upper cover gold-stamped in the Jesuit style.
LCCN
- 94121071
Geographic area code
- e-sp--- n-mx---
Type of material
- Textual Manuscript
Item Availability
CALL NUMBER
- KGF138.G88 G88 1599
- Copy 1
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- Rare Books - Law Library Reading Room (Madison, LM242)
Status
- c.1 In transit to Prints and Photographs Division 04-07-2022