‘It also has the following books in Romace and in Latin, given by the said Sacristan for the friars to read and to be taught’ (The library of the Monastery of Calatrava according to its inventory of 1495)

  • Manuel Ciudad Ruiz
Keywords: Order of Calatrava, Conventual library, Sacrtistán Mayor, Inventory of 1495, Bartolomé de Almodóvar

Abstract

The contents of the library of the Monastery of Calatrava according to the inventory of the book of visits of 1495. This group of books was given to the monastery by the first sacristan friar Bartolomé de Almodóvar so that the friars would read and be taught. Although works of a religious character predominate, books about the subjects that constituted the studia humanitatis also abound. Books in the library of Calatrava are identif ed according to the said inventory.

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Ciudad Ruiz M. (2011). ‘It also has the following books in Romace and in Latin, given by the said Sacristan for the friars to read and to be taught’ (The library of the Monastery of Calatrava according to its inventory of 1495). En la España Medieval, 34, 307-323. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_ELEM.2011.v34.36302
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