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CERTIFICACION DE ARMAS issued in favour of Don Jacobo Zejudo Portichuelo of Cadiz, in Spanish, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM Madrid, 1776 300 x 202mm. 65 leaves including two fold-outs, 18 lines written in brown ink within a frame of two triple fillets, justification: 188 x 106mm, titles and rubrics in blue and red capitals, headings and incipits in liquid gold, title-page with capitals of colours and liquid gold within a strapwork border of the same, FULL-PAGE ARMORIAL MINIATURE, ILLUMINATED OPENING FOLIO with stamped seal of Charles III, SIXTEEN HISTORIATED INITIALS with staves of liquid gold set before landscape scenes, most containing a large bird or beast, SIX ROCOCO CARTOUCHES, SIX HALF-PAGE ARMORIAL MINIATURES, TWO FOLD-OUT GENEALOGICAL TREES all illuminated in colours and liquid gold, nine protected by interleaved silk, two papered seals with the signatures of Don Ramon and Don Phelipe Lopez de la Huerta dated 9 December 1776, each folio initialled in authentication (two silks worn, very slight thumbing to outer edges of some folios). Contemporary pink-stained leather armorial binding gilt with a roll-tooled border of rococo design with the royal arms of Spain in the centre of both upper and lower covers, spine gilt in five compartments with fleuron and foliate bands (lacking silk fore-edge ties, extremities rubbed, areas of wear restained). This richly decorated document confirms the legitimate descent of Don Jacobo Zejudo Portichuelo of Cadiz and his right to bear the arms of Zejudo, Portichuelo, Peña, Ruiz de Peravad, Fernandez Rojo, Lara and Fernandez Corpas, and to place these arms, whether engraved, sculpted or painted, on seals, rings, paintings, houses, gates, coaches, plate and tombs. The full-page armorial and genealogical illuminations are as follows: f.2 Armorial bearings of Don Jacobo Zejudo Portichuelo f.3 Circular stamped paper seal of Charles III, King of Spain pasted within a painted laurel wreath beneath a crown and between trophies of war and two lions on a pedestal, in the foreground a rococo cartouche, supported by two musket-bearing putti, with the name of the Chronicler and King of Arms Don Ramon Zazo y Ortega who complied and signed the Certificacion f.29 Genealogical tree of Don Jacobo Zejudo Portichuelo through the families of Zejudo, Portichuelo and de la Peña f.65 Genealogical tree of Don Jacobo Zejudo Portichuelo through the families of Ruis de Peravad, Fernadez Rojo, Lara and Fernadez Corpas