Manuscript on vellum. Spain. In the Carta de Hidalgu’a issued by Philip II in 1563, the pages accommodate the lavish illumination done in the Flemish style. The document, which grants the status of nobility to Diego Gon‡lez, portrays five members of the Gon‡lez family, clad in black, kneeling before a monstrance placed on a canopied altar.