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The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
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.
Chancery; headings in roman capitals
Cataloger: Valle, Chiara
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Joyal, Stephanie
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Madrid (Spain)
25 November-2 December, 1782 CE
book
Original Binding
Eighteenth-century Spanish crimson velvet over pasteboard; gilded fore-edges
The primary language in this manuscript is Spanish; Castilian.
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"
Olivier Henry Perkins; bookplate on front pastedown
William Randolph Hearst
Mr. M. Hago, New York, February 1941, bought the manuscript from Gammer Galleries at Gimbels
Walters Art Museum, March 8, 1948, by purchase from Jack Grosfield
Madrid (Spain)
25 November-2 December, 1782 CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Spanish; Castilian.
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"
Olivier Henry Perkins; bookplate on front pastedown
William Randolph Hearst
Mr. M. Hago, New York, February 1941, bought the manuscript from Gammer Galleries at Gimbels
Walters Art Museum, March 8, 1948, by purchase from Jack Grosfield
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.
Chancery; headings in roman capitals
Cataloger: Valle, Chiara
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Joyal, Stephanie
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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