Vihuela’s strings for sale in a shop.

1615 (Archivo de Tribunales (now part of the Archivo Histórico de Córdoba)

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Document	Date	Century	City	Province
Vihuela’s strings for sale in a shop.	1615	17cent/1/early		Argentina

Summary

Document type	Subject	Siglum	Archive name	Call no.
archival document	Vihuelas		(Archivo de Tribunales (now part of the Archivo Histórico de Córdoba)	E 1, E, 1. 35, e. 2

Original text

1615 For sale in a shop there are "some packets of biguela strings".

People mentioned

Notes

Information from poulton1982 and drawn from grenonN.

John Minsheu, in A Dictionary of Spanish and English (London, 1599, translates a peso de Plata as 'fewer shillinges English' and a Peso de oro as 'eight shillings English'. Minsheu translates a real as 'sixe pence'.

Bibliography

Code	Author	Item	Pages
poulton1982	Poulton, Diana.	“The vihuela in Latin America.” Lute Society Journal, 22 (1982): 15-16.
grenonN	Grenón, Pedro.	Nuestra primera musica instrumental: datos historicos. Buenos Aires: Librería “La Cotizadora economica”, 1929.