Beschreibung:

Ferdinand V, King of Spain and Isabella, Queen of Spain IMPORTANT AND SUBSTANTIAL DOCUMENT SIGNED BY BOTH FERDINAND AND ISABELLA ("YO EL REY" AND "YO LA REYNA"), IN A SPANISH RENAISSANCE BINDING recognizing Marquis Don Diego Lopez de Pacheco [2nd Duke of Escalona], as lord of Villena and Albacete, and granting feudal rights to him regarding land in Castille-La Mancha, including the towns of Chinchilla, Villarrobledo, San Clemente, Villaneuva de la Fuente and others, outlining his obligations as feudal lord, the text written in a fine secretarial hand, foliated by the scribe ("1"...[and] "6"), annotated with section numbers in the left-hand margins (1-23), with a few annotations and corrections ("& Calona" in section 5), each page initialled with paraph at foot, counter-signed at the end, with the papered seal lettered ("Fernandus et Helisabet Dei Gra. reges Castell et Legionis et Cicilie") 12 pages, folio (c. 290 x 210mm.), SIXTEENTH-CENTURY SPANISH TAN MOROCCO GILT, lettered in gilt "Asiento entre los reies catolicos y el marq[ue]s D. Diego" on upper cover, outer gilt roll-tooled plateresque border depicting military trophies, inner corner fleurons and arabesque centrepiece (composed of smaller tools; possibly seventeenth-century), raised bands, traces of red and purple silk ties, pastedowns of hand-coloured woodcut designs, bookplates of the Emperor Maximilian of Mexico and J.M. Andrade to flyleaves, early annotations to front cover and rear pastedown, Toledo, 1 March 1480, remargined, repair to last leaf with loss of text to recto (not affecting the signatures), scorch-marks to torn edge, outer border of upper cover with later strips of matching calf pasted over, centrepiece on upper cover slightly rubbed, ties lacking