Noblesse

1726 · rif. LL 878 — "Ejecutoria de Hidalguía ganada por los Caballeros hijosdalgo de los Señores Don Nicolás Antonio de Arjona y Don Zoilo Alfonso de Arjona". 4to. 33 x 23 cm. Contemporary silk binding. Three manuscript pages vellum folio containing a beautifully rendered depiction of the spiritual state of Solitude with a figure of a recumbent Christ with two cherubim at his feet and angels with a Virgin Mary illuminated vellum folio with coat of arms of nobility of the Arjona Family with colored helmet two vellum pages with a genealogical tree cover five blank folios 211 folios. RICHLY ILLUMINATED SPANISH "CARTA DE HIDALGUIA. According to seventeenth century writer Bernabé Moreno de Vargas a patent of nobility hidalguía consists of a transcription of a favorable outcome of a lawsuit filed before the Chancellories of Ciudad Real Granada and Valladolid. on behalf of individuals families and often of entire lineages recognizing the plaintiff's or plaintiffs' noble status. After January 20 1703 the competencies for determining noble status would fall exclusively on the Chancellories of Valladolid and Granada in order to protect the impoverished Royal treasury from tax evasion. This patent of nobility or hidalguía concerns the families of Don Nicolás Antonio de Arjona and Don Zoilo Alfonso de Arjona in 1726. Artfully decorated the depiction of the family's noble coat of arms is especially worthy of mention. The document examines the two genealogical trees and stands as a good example of the heraldic literature of the time