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A sermon on the martyrdom of St Thomas of Canterbury. Fol. 128r
An unknown sermon on the martyrdom of Thomas Becket, murdered by knights of Henry II, King England. The cult of the saint arrived in Castile through…
Thomas of Ireland's Manipulus florum (1483). Ff. 42v-43r
This florilegium, composed around 1306, compiles over 5,000 citations attributed to classical, patristic and medieval authors, all organised thematically and alphabetically, from abstinentia to Christus. In Spain it also spread very quickly,…
Fernán Pérez de Guzmán's Chronicle of John II of Castile (1517). Fol. [23v]
By the Treaty of Bayonne of 1388, Catherine of Lancaster became wife to Prince Henry, heir to the throne of Castile, and first Princess of Asturias in history. The later Queen Consort of Henry III of Castile and regent of the kingdom during the…