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A tall tower and stone materials - History of the village of Tabara in the Middle Ages and scientific

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Tábara
The villa is situated in the north-central province of Zamora, at an altitude of 744 m. on sea level. The population serves as a hub for what is geologically known as Depression of Tabara, along the foothills of the Sierra de la Culebra, and next to the mountain of the Caverns and Carver. Its strategic location and its status recognized place of passage for some of the busiest routes of the northwest peninsula, have marked a decisive shape its history.

Its recorded history goes back at least to the early Middle Ages, it was Tábara an important monastic enclave wide resonance in the Kingdom of León. The monastery, dedicated to San Salvador, was probably built on some kind of late Roman or Visigothic previous installation, because she has endured some archaeological remains in area.

As recounted in the Life of St. Froilan , brief hagiographical text contained in the Bible Mozarabic Leon Cathedral, which was later bishop of León founded a monastery in the late IX, following the instructions of King Alfonso III. The same source informs us that the monastery to a thriving community gathered twofold, formed by six hundred monks and nuns. The figure is probably exaggerated, but it shows the ambition of the initial foundation: "ubi congregavit Aedificavit cenobium Taborense utrarumque sexum centi services Donimo animas servientium.
In the second half of the tenth century was in a famous monastic scriptorium were copied and illuminated a number of wonderful Blessed, which were the subject of attention of researchers and experts in codicology. These are : the Tabara (completed in 968), started by the painter-calligrapher Magius and completed by his disciple Emeterius, the Girona, written and illuminated by Emeterio Sennior and Ende in 975, and, most likely, the so-called San Miguel , Magius also work, who qualifies as a teacher Emeterio.
In the last folio of the Blessed Tábara (f. 167v.) joined the world-famous miniature of the tower of the monastery, with monks toiling inside the tasks of copying and making books. In the colophon (f. 167r.) Described the tower as high and stone materials, and laments the copyist of his own calamities thankless work: "O Turre tabarense lapideo Insupen high premium teak et ubi Emeterius tribusque Sedita incurvior mensis et cum omni calamum conquassatus membrane fuit. " The manuscript is kept today in the National Historical Archive under the symbol 1097B. Related
directly or indirectly to the Blessed Tábara other codices are kept in various archives and national libraries and foreigners, among them, and of a later age, those of Turin and strikes.

today's underground Roman temple were unearthed several archaeological marble contextualiazar have served to qualify the little news we have about the trajectory of this monastery, bases, shafts, capitals, fragments of a sarcophagus, for supporters of the altar, etc. X century we also have front row epigraphic evidence, including the possible foundation stone of the monastery, which is mentioned Arandisclo Abbot, and a funerary inscription fragment allocation problem.

The history of our monastery was interrupted abruptly in the late X. Represents the scholarly tradition that would have been prey to Mansur's campaigns to 988, so that would Tábara same fate as other monasteries as Eslonza and Sahagun, aceifas destroyed by Muslims.

In the second half of the eleventh century, the town tabarense must have possession of the Infanta Elvira, daughter of King Alfonso VI, for in his will, dated November 11, 1099 in Tabara, leaving it with other goods to great-niece Sancha: "Et Nepta control mea et Sancia that cryo Tauara Michael Bamba et cum Sancto adiuntionius Scalata suis ". The princess and her sister Urraca had received many of the monasteries linked to the royal crown, so that the possibility of maintenance in a certain monastic activity Tábara during this period is not negligible. Sancha , sister of Emperor Alfonso VII, gave his time, as the story of the Twenty Kings Chronicle all Tábara Valley to the Knights Templar. The exact date of this release is not known, but since the Death occurred in 1159 and in 1129 set as tenente Sancha of Tabara, is that the Bailiwick Templar settled in this town was one of the oldest the territory of Castilla.

on the remains of the old early medieval monastery in the second half of the twelfth century there arose a new Romanesque church, whose consecration took place in 1137 by Bishop Robert de Astorga, as shown by a caption next to the southern gate .

Wamba Division, apocryphal document of the early twelfth century draws Tábara as one of the limits of the diocese of Zamora: "The bishopric of Numancia, this is Camora, has the Penna Gusendo fasta or are the banner Tormes Val de Rey yazen sobrel, et dalli fasta in Douro, e Villalal fasta Oter of Prima assi as ua about fasta Breto Rio Seco, e Tauara fasta in Douro ".

The presence of the Knights Templar in the valley led to conflicts over the rights of bishops with the bishop of Astorga. In 1208 Pope Innocent III commissioned three dignities of Palencia to hear the lawsuit that kept the bishop of the diocese Asturicense against the Templars, because they refused to administer the prelate the sacrament of confirmation in the churches they had in Tábara. The decision was favorable to the bishop of Astorga, but the Templars not met. So in 1211 the pope commissioned the Bishop of Leon, the abbot of San Isidoro and the Archdeacon Peter Cipriániz legionense to compel the Templars to serve his sentence. Two years later, on April 18 disputes were settled with the establishment of an agreement between Don Pedro, bishop of Astorga and the Master of the Temple, Pedro Alvítiz.

The documentation for the trial of the Order shows that Carbajales Tábara and in 1310 had the same commander: frey Gómez Pérez. Joining him are mentioned more than ten other Templars apparently lived in the castle of Alba. It follows that the parcels Carbajales Tábara and formed one of the largest groups of friars of the order, exceeded only by residents in Faro. Suppressed the Knights Templar in 1312, Tabara happen due to the Crown, as was the case with other towns, if Villalpando. Last Templar
Tabara, despite the deep impression left in the village would be lost in the mists of time and fall within the scope of the legend. Still at the end of the fifteenth century neighbors vaguely remembered some details of this stage, as related in the testimony of certain witnesses in a lawsuit: "desir heard that there Tábara bivia in Madalena, which is in the midst of Tábara e Foramontanos, some friars sodomyticos Templars and that Tabara and Alkalinity lost all the land ea Tabara. "

In September 1371 King Henry II of Trastamara Tábara donates his vassal Valderrábano Gómez Pérez, along with the towns of Alba Ready, Mombuey, Alcañices and Ayoo, which had also belonged to the Knights Holy Sepulchre. The manor, also called Old Earth Tabara, also comprised of the town, places of Faramontanos, Ferreras de Arirba, Litos, Moreruela, Pozuelo, Riofrio, Santa Eulalia and San Martín. In 1471 joined the estate duty Sesnández, Escober, Casar and bruising. Already in the sixteenth century were added Ferreruela (1510) and Abejera (1541). A mid-fifteenth century the villa belonged to the Almansa, whose domain was extended to Alcañices and Mombuey. This is the origin of the manor of Tábara that eventually reached the hands of a branch of the family Pimentel.

mayorazgo founded in 1497 on this villa Don Pedro Pimentel Vigil de Quiñones, son of Count III Benavente, Alfonso Pimentel. A son of Don Pedro and Dona Ines Enriquez, Don Bernardino Pimentel and Enriquez received from Charles V in 1541 the title of Marquis of Tabara. The following year the Marquis and his wife Mrs. Constanza Osorio bought from the Crown Manor Villafáfila until last year that had belonged the Order of Santiago. The Pimentel tried to emulate the aristocratic villa of the Renaissance court, built his mansion, with plateresque, remnants of which still remain in the current square, where family coats abound. After residency, including Garden, with pond-and beyond, to the southeast, the forest, these spaces for recreation and hunting, just as those enjoyed by their relatives in Benavente. But also, like them, living primarily in Valladolid, where he had his main palace.

The introduction of the manorial system created tensions and disputes between lord and vassal. They complained that they could not appoint his own council as well as the limitations of natural resource exploitation, including those considered Concejil character. The town and its many paths rose to the Crown in 1528 and 1551 allegations of abuse which were considered noble. Tensions tried to settle in 1561 for the establishment of harmony and perpetual statute. It was acknowledged by harvesting and freedoms for more Old Earth, that is those of ancient origin, while in places populated by new exploitations were reserved to the lord.

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The Marquis, in addition to the villa tabarense, to places of Moreruela of Tabara, Faramontanos, San Martín de Tabara, Santa Eulalia, Litos, Escober, Ferreras de Arriba, Ferreruela ... Its owner, the Marquis de Tabara, still enjoyed the right of submission in the churches of the Marquis in the mid-nineteenth century.
* This text was written in collaboration with José Ignacio Martín Benito. Part, with some variations, the historical review the proposal submitted to shield the village of Tabara.
Images: 1. Overview of the church of Santa Maria de Tabara, 2. Registration founding of the monastery of San Salvador, 3. Church of Our Lady of Assumption 4. Pimentel crest lineage in the House-Palace of the Marquis of Tabara and 5. Main façade of the palace of the Marquis de Tábara.

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The noble knight - The "Decades" Livy translated by the Conde de Benavente

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The Roman historian Livy passed, with honors, to posterity for having composed a pharaonic History of Rome in 142 books. The work, known in its Latin version as Ab city libri Condit, dealt with the period between the founding of the city until the death of Nero Claudius Drusus in 9 BC. The ambitious master plan consisted originally As mentioned, of 142 books, divided into decades, or groups of 10 books, so this work is also cited as the "Decades" of Livy.

Despite the popularity of the Prince of historians , an important part of this legacy was forgotten irreparably. The technical difficulty to produce complete copies of such extensive editing alone would explain this loss, then, until the invention of printing, all of which were necessarily manuscript. For this reason, all these books, only 35 have reached until today (from 1 to 10 and from 21 to 45). Contain the history of the early centuries of Rome from the foundation in the year 753 a. C. up to 292 a. C. Recount the Second Punic War and the Roman conquest of Gaul, Greece, Macedonia and part of Asia Minor. The contents of rest of the books we have some indirect information through certain indices preserved.
the publicity was great was the work of Livy in the Hispanic kingdoms during the Middle Ages, especially in environments courtiers and nobility. The writings of classical history and knowledge of the exploits of the great heroes of antiquity are an essential part of education of the good knights. This position is repeated several translators and writers of the time as Alfonso de Cartagena: "E acostumbrauan the caualleros why they ate Quando Estoria Leyana the great feats of arms than the other hizieran and the brains and efforts to uvieron learn to overcome and finish what I wanted and it was because I grew up reading them the HEART: e esforçávanse haziendo with the hope of arriving at what the other hizieran and go through it. " The text
Ab Urbe Condit, prior to the translation of Fray Pedro de la Vega 1520, know two versions of romance. On the one hand he carried out, based in part on the Latin text, and partly in the French version of Pierre Berçuire, Foreign Minister Pedro López de Ayala, and the abbreviated second, preserved in several manuscripts and published in Salamanca, Burgos and Toledo. This last is attributed to Rodrigo Alfonso Pimentel, II Conde de Benavente (1420-1440).

The National Library maintains a beautiful fifteenth-century manuscript, apparently originally from the library of the Counts of Benavente had gathered at the castle of his ancestral village. Contains a condensed version and romance of the "Decades", specifically the first three. The work was commissioned to compose in 1439 by Rodrigo Alfonso Pimentel, who is described in the preface as "noble and Scientific cauallero" and declares the exemplary sense of history teaching. It is assumed that our noble personally involved in extracting its contents and set the romance version. On this basis it is assumed that the count would be the perpetrator of the text and, perhaps, the illustrator of some of his miniatures.

heads the first folio an angel carrying a shield. Several authors have identified this emblem with that of the Pimentel by the presence of bands. But Pimentel weapons of historically consisted of a shield quartered, first and fourth in a field of gold with three strips of gules, second and third in Vert, and five silver scallops start looped. The unique and ancient weapons of Pimentel are now in two Portuguese funerary monuments of the fourteenth century, and both include the venerated as an emblem.

The sample contains 240 unnumbered sheets of paper. It is written in two columns in Gothic letters elegant fifteenth century, although at a reduced size and very tight, making them 43 to 47 lines per column. Titles and initials were covered in red ink, while body text gray ink was used. The text is illustrated with 13 full page miniatures, not very refined technique and invoice line already seen in the book of punishment and Documents of Sancho IV.

The images are: fol. 6v. Romulus and Remus they name the new city, fol. 8v. Emergence of the Sabines, fol. 11v. The struggle of the three Romans and the three Albanians, fol. 12v. The youth winner kills his brother, fol. 16v. The carriage of Tulia, fol. 19v. Death of Lucretia, fol. 22. How the Roman boy burned his hand, fol. 36v. Virginia death by her father, fol. 100v. Amilcar Emperor Carthage and Hannibal child of nine years fol. 113V. Hannibal's victory at Cannae batlalla, fol. 114V. Scipio and the Romans fled, fol. 171 r. Victory of Scipio over Hannibal fol. 237r. Death of Hannibal.

The full text of the preface, for the first folio of the manuscript is as follows:

"Here begin three decades of Titus Libius first, that recount and recount the battles very high, dates and other things that fezieron the Romans from the founding of Rome, that were founders Romulus and Remus. E per quanto conponedor actor and Dell has all the deeds for commo Este acaesçieron because Veniero that after the best they can understand, So then to and in them many a longura prolixity of escriptura. And he tienpo actor was in the great battles between Jullie Ouo Cessar and Ponpeo, and it was natural for çibdat of Capua. E comm Alfonso Rodrigo Pimentel, Count of Benauente, the grand volume UIES reasons contained in these books, they worked and applied to the acopillar and put, non amenguando the reality judgments and Dell, in the form below. The qual acopilaçión he made, and ordered him in the year of the nativity of our Lord Jesu Christ, one thousand and four hundred and thirty and nueue years Reynante in Castilla and León in the very noble, holy and virtuous king Don Iohan, our Lord, fixed Enrrique very illustrious Don King of glorious memory, God save, and the queen Dona Maria, his wife, sets the noble King Don Ferrando of Aragon, Infante of Castile, and the prince Don Enrrique, its fixed eldest heir, and the princess Blanche, his wife, set of King of Nauarra Iohan. "

this was not the only work written in the offices of the strength of Benavente in the fifteenth century. In 1434 was completed to collect by Manuel Rodriguez de Sevilla, notary and scribe Benavente normal counts, a "crown d'Spain, a copy of the Chronicle of 1344, commissioned by Rodrigo Alonso. We know from many testimonies
several Pimentel of this century were men lovers of literature, patron of writers and promoters of copying and publication of works. Alfonso Pimentel, Conde de Benavente III (1440-1451), know the content of his magnificent library thanks to a 1447 inventory drawn towards which contains 126 volumes. Along with religious themes, philosophy, the writings of legal and medieval history, there were plenty on their shelves classical authors such as Seneca, Virgil, Lucan and Livy. Criticism puts this collection of the most representative of the English nobility in the mid-fifteenth century. Collaborators
Count III of key figures as his servant Pedro de Chinchilla. This server went on to achieve notoriety as a writer and translator. His services to the family back three generations of the count's household, as recalled in 1467 about his "Exhortation and information on good and sound doctrine" "On the other hand, was very stimulated and settled in the commandments and honest caring pleas sobrello ovo me Don Rodrigo Alfonso I date, first count of Benavente, my lord, and as this was to me more ynportançia and sharp spurs the obligation of the lot and a long criança that ove the house of his ancestors, father and grandfather, whose God save souls. "

Likewise, Menéndez Pelayo Library maintains a manuscript with the conquest of Troy Column Guido translated by Peter Chin. The manuscript bears the signature M. 561 and was composed in 1443 in Benavente.

Text of his preface is as follows:

"Here begins the book of the History of Trojan second GUID Colupna copillo, the transfer of latin qual our romance Pedro de Chinchilla, servant of Don Alfonso Pimentel, Count of Benavente, and by his order. E is first, the preface able in the Pedro de Chinchilla [...] Quando Benavente was started in the fruitful Incarnation of our Redeemer was coming to the military and four hundred and forty and three years, the solar body faciendo their course vnder Zodiac at the start of the tread mark.
Images: 1. First folio of the codex with the Prologue, 2. Scipio and the Romans who escaped [fol. 114V.] 3.'s victory in the battle Hannibal Cannas [fol. 113V.] 4. Death of Hannibal [fol. 237r.] and 5. Inrush of the Sabine [fol. 8v.].