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Zeravshan District. Timber Yard in Samarkand
This photograph is from the trades (economic) part of Turkestan Album,a comprehensive visual survey of Central Asia undertaken after imperial Russia assumed control of the region in the 1860s....
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New Treatise on Astronomy
Ramon Llull (circa 1232−1316), a key figure in medieval literature, was a multifaceted personality who pursued literature, philosophy, theology, and the natural sciences with passion and skill. An...
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The Reapers
Els Segadors (The reapers) was declared in 1993 by the parliament of Catalonia, an autonomous region within Spain, to be the official anthem of the region. This hymn was not written for any particular...
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Grievances of Guitart Isarn, Lord of Cabó
Dating from 1080, Greuges de Guitard Isarn, senyor de Caboet (Grievances of Guitart Isarn, Lord of Cabó) is believed to be the oldest surviving document in Catalan. The rancures were grievances that...
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The Book of the Hebrews
Manuals or notarial protocols are books used by Catalan notaries since the 13th century to register in accurate chronological order all notarized acts. Some notaries opened special books in which they...
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Maritime Regulations
Libre appellat Consolat de mar (Maritime regulations) is a collection of maritime and commercial ordinances and decrees of medieval origin that once had legal authority. The text comes from the ancient...
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Canigó
Canigó is regarded as the best epic poem by Jacint Verdaguer (1845−1902), the most important Catalan writer of the 19th century and a leading figure of the Catalan renaissance. A Roman Catholic priest...
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Abadal Album of Samples
The Abadal family, from Moià and later from Manresa, was one of the main producers of prints in Catalonia in the Baroque period, during the 17th and 18th centuries. Soon after it was founded, the...
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Provençal Songbook
Cançoner provençal (Provençal songbook) is a 14th century manuscript, written in Occitan, discovered in 1876 by the scholar Milà i Fontanals, and acquired in 1910 by a group of ten benefactors who...
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Legislature Building, Montevideo. Longitudinal Section
Gaietà Buïgas i Monravà (1851−1919) was the designer of the monument to Christopher Columbus in Barcelona (erected 1882−88) and of such buildings as the Villa Avelina, now the Hotel El Xalet, in...
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Design for the Proposed Centre Català, Montevideo. Building Plan
Gaietà Buïgas Monravà (1851-1919) was the designer of the monument to Christopher Columbus in Barcelona (erected 1882-88) and of such buildings as the Spa Vichy Català in Caldes de Malavella (1898)...
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Design for the Proposed Centre Català, Montevideo. Floor Plans
Gaietà Buïgas i Monravà (1851-1919) was the designer of the monument to Christopher Columbus in Barcelona (erected 1882-88) and of such buildings as the Spa Vichy Català in Caldes de Malavella (1898)...
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Legislature Building, Montevideo. Floor Plan
Gaietà Buïgas i Monravà (1851−1919) was the designer of the monument to Christopher Columbus in Barcelona (erected 1882−88) and of such buildings as the Spa Vichy Català in Caldes de Malavella (1898)...
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La Renaxensa, Volume 1, Number 1, 1 February 1871
La Renaixensa was the first periodical written entirely in Catalan since 1714, when King Philip V of Spain banned the language. La Renaixensa (La Renaxensa between 1871 and 1876) takes its name from...
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L'Atlàntida, Volume 1, Number 1, 15 May 1896
L’Atlàntida (Atlantis) is a literary magazine in Catalan. It began publishing almost 20 years after the appearance of the great Catalan epic poem of the same name by Jacint Verdaguer, who won special...
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Missa Barcelona. Ars Nova
In the middle of the 14th century, foreign minstrels and chanters in the service of the royal house of Catalonia-Aragon introduced new musical styles into the country. During the reigns of Peter IV of...
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Compendium of the Art of Arithmetic
Suma de la art de arismetica (Compendium of the art of arithmetic) is the first arithmetic printed on the Iberian Peninsula and possibly the second printed in Europe. Very little is known about the...
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Book for Women
Francesc Eiximenis (circa 1340–1409) was a Franciscan monk and a prolific writer. He studied in Catalonia, Oxford, and Toulouse, and probably in Paris. Considered a prestigious intellectual, he...
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Homilies of Organyà
Written in all likelihood by a priest in the town of Organyà, in north-central Catalonia, in circa 1203-4, this brief manuscript contains six homilies, intended to prepare believers for penance during...
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Spiritual Chant
“Cant espiritual” (Spiritual chant) appeared in February 1911 in the book Seqüències (Sequences), published by Tipografia L’Avenç in Barcelona. The poem had great influence in Catalonia and is one of...
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