Walters Ms. W.736, Certification of Arms and Genealogical Treatise

W.736

Certification of Arms and Genealogical Treatise

Genealogy and Heraldy

As-written name: Don Ramon Zazo y Ôrtega

Known as: Don Ramon Zazo of Ortega

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.

25 November-2 December, 1782 CE

Madrid (Spain)

As-written name: Don Ramon Zazo y Ôrtega

Known as: Don Ramon Zazo of Ortega

Book

Historical

The primary language in this manuscript is Spanish; Castilian.

Parchment

Parchment of medium thickness, well prepared on both sides

Foliation: i+27+i

Paper flyleaves; red silk before or after the illuminations; fol. 27 is a fold-out chart

Formula: 1(6), 2-7(2), 8(6), 9-10(2), 11(3)

Catchwords: None

Signatures: Signatures in cursive brown ink throughout the manuscript

Comments: Quires begin on fols. 1(1), 3(2), 5(3), 7(4), 9(5), 11(6), 13(7), 15(8), 21(9), 23(10), 25(11)

10.0 cm wide by 16.1 cm high

10.2 cm wide by 17.2 cm high

1. Columns: 1
2. Ruled lines: 20-21
3. Single vertical and double horizontal lead ruling

fols. 1r - 27v:

1. Title: Genealogy and Heraldy
2. Author: Don Ramon Zazo y Ôrtega
3. Scribe: Don Ramon Zazo y Ôrtega
4. Incipit: Chronista y Rey de Armas numerario de la Catolica Magestad del Señor Don Carlos, Rey de España y Emperador dela America, tercero de este nombre, Nuestro Señor (que Dios guarde)
5. Contents: Fols. 3r-10v: house of Despuig or Puig; fols. 11r-15r: house of Palla; fols. 15v-17v: house of Gelabert; fols. 18r-21v: house of Mora; fols. 22r-24v: certifications of the coats of arms; fols. 24v-26v: date and signatures; fol. 27r: genealogical chart
6. Hand note: Chancery; headings in roman capitals
7. Decoration note: Two full-page heraldic miniatures; five heraldic text miniatures; ten illuminated initials; one fold-out decorated genealogical table; four illuminated text headings; headings in roman capitals in gold ink; text in black ink within double three-red lines border

fol. 1r:

1. 
2. Title: Coat of arms of Spanish royal families
3. Form: Full-page miniature
4. Text: Certification of Arms and Genealogical Treatise by Don Ramon Zazo y Ôrtega

fol. 2r:

1. 
2. Title: Frontispiece signed Don Ramon Zazo y Ortega with seal of Charles III, king of Spain
3. Form: Full-page miniature
4. Text: Certification of Arms and Genealogical Treatise by Don Ramon Zazo y Ôrtega

fol. 3r:

1. 
2. Title: Initial "A"
3. Form: Decorated headpiece
4. Text: Certification of Arms and Genealogical Treatise by Don Ramon Zazo y Ôrtega: House of Despuig or Puig

fol. 7v:

1. 
2. Title: Initial "P" and coat of arms of Bernardo Despuig
3. Form: Decorated headpiece
4. Text: Certification of Arms and Genealogical Treatise by Don Ramon Zazo y Ôrtega: Trophy of Bernardo Despuig
5. Comment:

   The inscription reads "Ab alto cuncta."

fol. 8v:

1. 
2. Title: Initial "E" and coat of arms of the house of Despuig or Puig
3. Form: Decorated headpiece
4. Text: Certification of Arms and Genealogical Treatise by Don Ramon Zazo y Ôrtega: coat of arms of Bernardo Despuig
5. Comment:

   The inscription reads "Ab alto cuncta."

fol. 11r:

1. 
2. Title: Initial "D"
3. Form: Decorated headpiece
4. Text: Certification of Arms and Genealogical Treatise by Don Ramon Zazo y Ôrtega: House of Pallas

fol. 13r:

1. 
2. Title: Initial "P" and coat of arms of the house of Pallas
3. Form: Decorated headpiece
4. Text: Certification of Arms and Genealogical Treatise by Don Ramon Zazo y Ôrteg: House of Pallas

fol. 15v:

1. 
2. Title: Initial "D"
3. Form: Decorated headpiece
4. Text: Certification of Arms and Genealogical Treatise by Don Ramon Zazo y Ôrteg: House of Gelabert

fol. 16v:

1. 
2. Title: Initial "P" and coat of arms of the house of Gelabert
3. Form: Decorated headpiece
4. Text: Certification of Arms and Genealogical Treatise by Don Ramon Zazo y Ôrteg: House of Gelabert

fol. 18r:

1. 
2. Title: Initial "D"
3. Form: Decorated headpiece
4. Text: Certification of Arms and Genealogical Treatise by Don Ramon Zazo y Ôrteg: House of Mora

fol. 20v:

1. 
2. Title: Initial "P" and coat of arms of the house of Mora
3. Form: Decorated headpiece
4. Text: Certification of Arms and Genealogical Treatise by Don Ramon Zazo y Ôrteg: House of Mora

fol. 22r:

1. 
2. Title: Initial "Y"
3. Form: Decorated initial "Y," 5 lines
4. Text: Certification of Arms and Genealogical Treatise by Don Ramon Zazo y Ôrteg: Certifications of the arms

Folio 27r folded:

1. 
2. Title: Genealogical chart of the royal families Despuig, Pallas, Gelabert, and Mora
3. Form: Full-page miniature
4. Text: Certification of Arms and Genealogical Treatise by Don Ramon Zazo y Ôrteg

The binding is original.

Eighteenth-century Spanish crimson velvet over pasteboard; gilded fore-edges

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 (1864-1951), New York and California, owned the manuscript before 1941

Mr. M. Hago, New York, February 1941, bought the manuscript from Gammer Galleries at Gimbels (lot. no. 1433, article 63)

Walters Art Museum, March 8, 1948, by purchase from Jack Grosfield

Catalogers: Valle, Chiara; Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934

Editor: Herbert, Lynley

Copy editor: Dibble, Charles

Conservators: Owen, Linda; Quandt, Abigail

Contributors: Bockrath, Diane; Emery, Doug; Joyal, Stephanie; Noel, William; Tabritha, Ariel; Toth, Michael B.

The Walters Art Museum

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