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Lot #185
Queen Isabella I Document Signed (1501)

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Queen of Castile from 1474 until her death in 1504, reigning over a dynastically unified Spain together with her husband, King Ferdinand II of Aragon; they are best remembered for establishing the Spanish Inquisition and for financing Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage that led to the discovery of the New World . Manuscript DS in Spanish, signed “Yo la Reyna [I the Queen],” one page, 8.5 x 11, December 1501. Untranslated financial document signed only one month after the marriage of her youngest daughter, Catherine, to Arthur, Prince of Wales, which bonded Spain and England, leading to some of the most important social and religious advances in European history. In very good to fine condition, with scattered light foxing and staining.

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