Folio (312 x 🀅219 mm), manuscript on vellum, 30 leaves, 39 lines in brown ink, rounded humanist type, 13 large (7 lines high) and 1 very large initial (15 lines high) in gold on red ground with delicate floral gold work, fol. 1v and 2r decorated with attractive full-page illuminations, first full-page illumination top third of the page contains a vibrant and painterly depiction of the Virgin Mary in pastel colours with soft shading, below are decorative humanist initials in gold with vegetal and architectural elements spelling DON FILIPPE on red ground with white floral filigree work, lower half adorned with escutcheon with blue feathery mantling, shield surrounded with silver scrollwork, subject of the Morillo coat of arms is the siege of a fort, the illuminations are framed by architectural elements and acanthus leaves in blue, green, yellow, and rose on a gold ground, f. 2r second fully decorated page shows most likely St James at the Battle of Clavijo on a rearing horse with his sword at the ready in finely decorated armour, usually this depiction includes fallen Muslim soldiers and discarded weaponry, however a depiction of St James is often included in document such as these, three-quarter border with vegetal and and architectural elements parallel to f. 1r on gold ground. (First leaf and last 2 leaves with a few scattered wormholes, mostly marginal but slightly affecting first illumination.)

binding: Contemporary Granada binding of black morocco gilt (322 x 224 mm) gold tooled, three concentric frames decorated with rolls, mitres connecting frames, rosette in centre of oute﷽r space between frames, fleuron in centre of space between inner frames, in central panel vertical line of tools – arabesque, bird, lion, deer, arabesque fleur at each inner angle, spine with 4 bands, traces of 2 pairs of green silk ties, braided cord sewn in for seal, edges gilt. (Rebacked, lacking seal, boards and paꩵstedowns slightly wormed.)

provenance: Produced for the aristocratic family of Alonso Morillo de la Villa de la Puebla de Alcocer from Granada, with inscriptions on upper endleaf and family's representative coat of arms on f. 2r. acquisition: Purchased in 2012 from Breitfield, Buenos Aires. references: c.f. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, MS Marlay 6, S. Panayotova, N. J. Morgan, S. Reynolds (eds.), A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges (Cambridge 2012), vol. 2, pp. 314-315