El Cavaller de Colunya. A Miracle of the Rosary in the Choirbooks of San Pedro Mártir de Toledo

This essay centers on El Cavaller de Colunya (“The Knight of Cologne”), a Spanish miracle of the rosary that appears in the illuminations of choirbooks produced ca. 1490–1510 for the Dominican convent of San Pedro Martir, an important religious institution in Toledo, Spain, that housed a tribunal of the Inquisition. Following an exposition of the miracle, this article traces its rich history in the literature, music, and art of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. It concludes by arguing for its contemporary significance to the patrons who commissioned the choirbooks—a wealthy confraternity of the rosary whose membership was strictly limited to the silk weavers of Toledo.