Found 2 collections related to Contracts

This manuscript, dated September 9, 1482, is a lease contract for two Jewish inhabitants of Salamanca, Spain regarding half a courtyard and a garden that establishes permission to create a new Jewish quarter in the city. The contract reveals an initiative to construct a Jewish quarter with complete legality a decade before the mandatory expulsion of Jews following the Alhambra Decree of 1492; this challenges the traditional narrative that the Salamanca Jewish community experienced a steady decline from the 1470s until the Decree. less

Joan Didion (1934-2021) and John Gregory Dunne (1932-2003) were writers closely associated with the New Journalism movement who wrote novels, essays, long-form nonfiction, and screenplays. Didion and Dunne's papers date from the 1840s through 2022 (bulk dates 1950s-2010s) and chronicle their literary and screenwriting careers through correspondence, publishing files, notes for writing projects, photographs, and research files. The papers also include objects from their home lives, certificates and awards, personal and family ephemera, and artwork. less