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The ‘Spanish Chapel’ of Philip II

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Isabel Pope
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Extract

A document preserved in the Barbieri Collection at the National Library provides us with the following information concerning sums paid to the choir boys in the first third of 1561. No list appears in the ‘Roolos’ for that year.

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Research Article
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Renaissance News , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , Summer 1952 , pp. 34 - 38
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Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 1952

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5 Papeles de Barbieri, Sig 14018, núm. 20.

6 Papeles de Barbieri, Sig 14018, núm. 19.

7 According to the Dictionary of the Spanish Academy “colazion” may be a light supper served on fast days.

8 Placa, according to the Dictionary of the Spanish Academy was a Flemish coin which circulated in Spain and was worth approximately one fourth of a silver real. A real at this time was equivalent to 1.04 gold pesetas in modern Spanish currency. Yet at this rate each cantor should have received 360 reales and Cristoval de Leon 180 reales! Can the placa have been valued at this time at one half a real in this case the reading would be 720 reales and 360 reales. The use of this coin emphasizes the fact that these were accounts of the ‘House of Burgundy.’

9 117 reales 120 maravedis

10 Biblioteca Nacional. Papeles de Barbieri Sig 14018, núm. 7.

11 He enjoyed the benefits of two ‘places’ or positions.