Cantigas de Santa Maria
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The Cantigas de Santa Maria are 420 poems with musical notation, written in the medieval Galician-Portuguese language during the reign of Alfonso X of Castile El Sabio. Traditionally, they are all att
Illumination with buisine players from the E Codex (Bl-2, fol. 286R)
An illustration from the E Codex, Codex of the musicians, Cantigas de Santa Maria.
The Moors request permission from James I of Aragón, Cantigas de Santa Maria
Miniatures, Codex Rico, Cantiga #35
Alfonso X of Castile
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Alfonso X was King of Castile, León and Galicia from 1 June 1252 until his death in 1284. During the election of 1257, a dissident faction chose him to be king of Germany on 1 April. He renounced his
Cantigas de Santa Maria
…Portuguese: ; "Canticles of Holy Mary") are 420 poems with musical notation, written in the medieval Galician-Portuguese language during the reign of Alfonso X of Castile El Sabio (1221–1284). Traditionally, they are all attributed to Alfonso, though scholars have since established that the musicians and poets of his court were…
Portrait of Alfonso X from the Libro de los juegos (1283)
Portrait of Alfonso X from the codex Tumbo 'A' de Santiago (Dated between 1229 and 1255)
Castillian ambassadors meeting Almohad caliph Abu Hafs Umar al-Murtada, from the Cantigas de Santa María
Equestrian seal of Alfonso X of Castile