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(ROELAS Y PAZ, MARCOS DE LAS.) Executoria . . . por donde se justifica jurídicamente la Nobleza, e Hidalguía, que goza Don Marcos de las Roelas Sánchez y Paz,Jurado Perpetuo de el Regimiento de la Ciudad de Córdoba. Title in red and black within type ornament border; woodcut cartouche containing hand-drawn coat of arms in ink; folding letterpress genealogical table with hand-drawn background of tree trunks and branches in ink. [4], 119 pages. Folio, 287x201 mm, contemporary limp vellum, worn with 2 holes in front joint, lacking ties; dampstaining throughout, mostly marginal but occasionally dark, clean tears in folding table repaired with cellophane tape, contemporary doodles and inscription on blank last page. (Córdoba, 4 September 1706) [i. e., 1713?]
Spanish patents of nobility were customarily executed in manuscript; this is an uncommon example printed from type. The grantee was apparently the self-taught calligrapher from Pórtugos in the province of Granada who was active at the court of King João V of Portugal in the early 18th century. See Ana Martínez Pereira, "Un Calígrafo Español en la Corte de D. João V," Península: Revista de Estudos Ibéricos, 2003, pages 355-68 (commenting on the limited biographical information about him, not noting this document).
