Moors banned, Armada planned
THE SPIRO collection, sold by Christie’s on December 3 included a few letters and documents of Spanish monarchs and a proclamation of July 1501, signed by both Ferdinand V and Isabella, that banned all unconverted Moors from Granada – the last step prior to the final expulsion of the Moors from Spain – was sold for £42,000.
The December 4-5 Sotheby’s sale of the H.P. Kraus inventory, included three documents in royal secre…