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Military Illustrations from
Las Cantigas de Santa Maria
"The Cantigas de Santa Maria is one of the most notable literary productions of the court of Alfonso X. The Cantigas consist of more than four hundred poems set to music extolling the virtues of the Virgin Mary, and many of the poems derive from events of Alfonso's reign. While the poems were written in 1280, before the illustrations, which were completed on or around 1284, the illustrations have drawn scholars into a world of crosscultural references and literary parallels. There are four surviving Cantigas manuscripts: two live in the Biblioteca de San Lorenzo el Real at the El Escorial palace near Madrid - MS T.I. 1, also known as the Códice Rico, and the MS B.1.2 - the third manuscript is in Madrid at the Biblioteca Nacional, MS 10.069, and the last example is in Florence, Italy at the Biblioteca Nazionale, MS Banco Rari 20." Sarah. A. Cosgrove
Full Pages of Military Interest from the Cantigas de Santa Maria
including:
Pages from: codex MS T. I. 1 (Códice Rico).
Cantiga 12 Armoured & unarmoured infantry
Cantiga 99 featuring moorish troops
Cantiga 181 A Moroccan army is defeated by another with the banner of Holy Mary
Cantiga 187b featuring Granadine cavalry & infantry
Pages from: codex Florencia Ms Banco Rari 20
Individual Panels of Military Interest from the Cantigas de Santa Maria
A larger list of Cantigas de Santa Maria on both civilian and military subjects
Captions from The Oxford Cantigas de Santa Maria Database
The Toledo Cantiga manuscript (MS 10.069) is illuminated but not illustrated.
For illustrations of musical subjects in Escorial MS B.1.2 see The Cantigas de Santa Maria
Illustrations of named musical instruments being played in Escorial MS B.1.2.
