From what I surmise they didn’t have permission but told the book dealer. Someone higher up needed the $. Pretty murky but cathedral libraries weren’t very secure. Didn’t go to repairs.
I know! But in most English coverage it's called Saragossa. To find some of the citations here I had to go to the Spanish sources. I don't know why this happens. The NYT used Saragossa. The cathedra was built on a Roman fort, that became a mosque then became a Cathedral. it's part of the World heritage site of Aragonese Mudéjar which I had never heard of. Why these take me so much time to write as so many side trips.
From what I surmise they didn’t have permission but told the book dealer. Someone higher up needed the $. Pretty murky but cathedral libraries weren’t very secure. Didn’t go to repairs.
Nice article on the Vinland Map forgery: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/medieval-map-of-north-america-identified-as-20th-century-forgery-180978751/
Thank you. I have a draft for that some day but got caught in his earlier forgeries. What a guy.
Just the name Zaragoza, screams of intregue. Haunting in the sound of the word itself.
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I know! But in most English coverage it's called Saragossa. To find some of the citations here I had to go to the Spanish sources. I don't know why this happens. The NYT used Saragossa. The cathedra was built on a Roman fort, that became a mosque then became a Cathedral. it's part of the World heritage site of Aragonese Mudéjar which I had never heard of. Why these take me so much time to write as so many side trips.
Interesting, thank you -- sold to repair the church -- was that a bad or possibly good reason?