Documents in Casa de Sefarad in Cordoba

 Not far from La Mesquita in Cordoba there is a little museum called Casa de Sefarad. The name implies it is something about Jews who were driven away from Spain by the Inquisition and of course there are some documents of the Inquisition on display. Whatever is written on them, they are excellent examples of the calligraphy of the time, which is Renaissance.

Interestingly, the two documents shown here say the same thing. They are both in Spanish, so whoever knows that language can actually read them. One is in fashionable at the time antiqua script, which was rather difficult to write (but despite it looking like print must have been written by hand). The other document is written in much easier to write corsiva script (often called italic outside Italy).

The two documents say the same therefore one has to assume that the decorative initial that looks like A must in fact be N.

There is a book available, based on this blog.  

On the blog there is, so to speak, more room, one can show more illustrations there. Blogs, however, come and go, there is no certainty that it will be there ten years from now. The book, on the other hand, once you acquire it, will last, one can be sure of that.