Manuscript leaf from a Carta Executoria de Hidalguia, in Spanish, produced in Spain

MS 5650/126

Manuscript leaf from a Carta Executoria de Hidalguia, in Spanish, produced in Spain

c.1600

Text: Probably from a Carta Executoria de Hidalguia, in Spanish

Script: Iberian Textualis Formata (Rotunda)

This leaf is probably from a Carta Executoria de Hidalguia written in about 1600, and is in Spanish. It relates to persons living in Northern Spain and residing in or near the towns of Logroño and Tormantos. Incidentally Logroño is on the pilgrim route to Santiago de Compostela and Tormantos is close to the route.

There are two complete narratives each introduced by a heading ‘OTRO SI DIXO’ in painted gold versal letters on a red banner and a blue banner and the start of another narrative on another red banner. The text is in a single column of twenty-six lines on the recto and twenty-four lines on the verso including the heading banners. On each side the text is enclosed in plain narrow border frame painted in black, red and gold. The text is written in a neat black Rotunda script. There are pen-drawn line fillers.

The word spacing is very haphazard and may not be entirely correctly shown in the transcription. The spelling of some words is different from current Spanish spelling. Thus the words for ‘twenty’ and ‘thirty’ are spelled with a ‘y’ instead of the modern ‘i’ and ‘veinte’ is written as ‘veynte’ and ‘treinta’ is written as ‘treynta’. This may be a regional variation. Also ‘hacienda’ meaning ‘estate’ is written as ‘hazienda’.

Sometimes words start with a capital letter and sometimes do not. The two main towns are named as ‘Logrono’ and ‘tormantos’. The word for ‘years’ is written both as ‘Anos’ and ‘anos’ for no obvious reason.

When this leaf was acquired it was described as coming from a prayer book. This is plainly not so.

Transcription

Recto:

1 N erales que le fueron fechas [line filler]

2 O T R O S I D I X O

3 Este dicho testigo que conocia al dicho liti-

4 gante de veynte y cinco Anos a ha quella par-

5 te E que overadecir que esta vacassado y bivi-

6 a en la ciudad de Logrono Donde her anatu

7 ral J quea diego defalces su padre Le avia co-

8 mencado a conocer podriauer . treynta anos

9 Pocomas o menos siendo El susodicho y a-

10 cassado viviendo y morando en la dicha ciu-

11 dad de logrono y endo y biniendo a la dicha

12 Villa de tormantos A donde El suso dich(o)

13 tenia vienes y hazienda decassas y Huerta(s)

14 y heredades quelas avia heredado de dona

15 aldoncadevillo das Sutia y hermana de su

16 padre y que podria aber que bendiera La di-

17 dicha hazienda que tenia En la dicha vi-

18 lla tiempo de ocho anos pocomas o menos

19 E quese avia bendido aun Juan de Marti( )

20 sanz yafrancisco desanturde clerigo y que

21 podia aver . Catorce anos pocomas o menos

22 que avia muerto El dicho diego defalces y

23 que este testigo le avia conocido Tiempo y

24 espacio de veynte y ocho anos pocomas o

25 menos que tenia vienes y hazienda en

26 La dicha villa de tormantos y que a los d( )

Verso:

1 mas que contenia La pregunta este testigo

2 no los avia conocido ni conocia y esto dixo

3 a la pregunta [line filler]

4 O T R O S I D I X O

5 Este testigo que todo el tiempo que tenia dich(o)

6 que abia que conocia al que litigaua y en elq( )

7 conociera a su padre diego Defalces Los a-

8 via tenido y tenia Em posesion y rreputacio(n)

9 de hombres hijos dalgo notorios yportale(s)

10 y como atales los avia visto que aviansido-

11 y heran auidos y tenidos y comun mente rre-

12 puta dos Entre todos Los vecinos de la di-

13 cha villa de tormantos sin quejamas ovie-

14 seoy do decit Lossa en contrario y quede ello

15 avia sido y hera muy publico y noctorio pu-

16 blicavoz y fama y comun opinion y que nu(n)-

17 ca les avia conocido A Los suso dicho ni a

18 ninguno dellos parientes ningunos que-

19 fuesen niouies ensido pecheros y estorrespo(n)

20 dio a la pregunta [line filler]

21 O T R O S I D I X O

22 este testigo que en la dicha villa de torman-

23 tos avia sido y hera costumbre husa daygu

24 at dada de tiempo In memoriala a quella-

Notes:

A Letters: a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,l,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,u/v,x,y,z,

A,C,D,E,H,I,J,L,M,N,P,S,T.

Note the large and elaborate form of ‘h’ with a hairline tail.

Unusually, a round ‘r’ is sometimes written after an ‘e’.

B Versals: D,I,O,R,S,T,X.

C Alternative forms of letters ‘d’(2), ‘r’(2) and ‘s’(2).

D Fusion between letters ‘de’, ‘do’, ‘he’, ‘ho’, ‘oc’, ‘pe’,

‘po’ and ‘ye’.

E Elision between letters ‘ci’, ‘fa’, ‘fu’, ‘ga’, ‘go’, ‘gr’, ‘gu’,

‘ta’, ‘ti’ and ‘tr’.

F Ligature of ‘st’, e.g. in ‘testigo’ (recto, line 3).

G Ligature of ‘ct’ in ‘noctorio’ (verso, line 15).

H Abbreviated words are almost completely absent.

I Note the letter ‘o’ written within the letter ‘h’ in ‘dicho’

(recto, line 12).

MS 126

Spanish

1 leaf

Material: Vellum leaf