Document authorizing the Court Treasurer to pay thirty gold florins to a court musician.

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The music of the court of Queen Maria and Alfonso V of Castile in the mid 15th-century - particularly its lute-guitar-vihuela-harp music - gave rise to that celebrated tradition which flowered in the vihuela and lute music of Luis Milán (d. ca. 1561) in the following century. Court records such as this provide important clues in the reconstruction of that early tradition. The payment authorized here of the very considerable sum of 30 florins is to one "pere de Vallseca" ("Vallseca the Elder"), "sonador de corda o de arpa." Ity almost certainly refers to Eduardo de Vallseca, a harpist and contemporary of "Rodrigo de la guitarra", whose importance has been ably demonstrated (See gomez1992-2, pp. 583-593). A full transcription and translation is available upon request Oblong folio. One page on watermarked paper, in a chancery, cursive script. In medieval Catalan. Seal on verso, and small resulting perforation in center from opening, with loss of two letters.

See gomez1992-2. Bookseller Inventory # 247202
Maricarmen Gómez [29/1/2012] asserts that the document must have been stolen from the Archivo de la Corona de Aragón.

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