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Beautiful piece, and always exciting to find original documents.






1 posted on 11/29/2017 8:03:20 AM PST by mairdie
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To: mairdie

Interesting


2 posted on 11/29/2017 8:26:08 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: mairdie

It was very common in the Middle Ages and probably until at least the 18th c in Northern Spain to leave a little box hidden in the altar where the priest or even the builders would leave details about the purchase of the land, or the item, or even completely random things such as their observations on a local event.

Hollowed out statues (not hard, since many of them were hollow to begin with) or architectural details were also sometimes used to hold the little box and its tiny scrolls.


4 posted on 11/29/2017 8:57:13 AM PST by livius
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To: mairdie

Cursive? Who can interpret that these days?


7 posted on 11/29/2017 4:38:01 PM PST by Libloather (Trivial Pursuit question - name the first female to lose TWO presidential elections!)
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