Codex Santa Marta, Frontispiece.

Composed on parchment in the seventeenth century, the Santa Marta Codex is a collection of coats of arms of kings and queens and a large number of nobles, enrolled in a prestigious brotherhood, the Collegium Disciplinatorum Sanctae Marthae. The Code represents a very important historical testimony both for the succession of the dynasties and the houses reigning over the capital Naples, and for the evolution of the southern figurative culture.