El cromatismo: un motivo recurrente en un manuscrito aljamiado-morisco de la literatura española del Siglo de Oro.

Abstract

Chromatics is a recurring theme found in the Castilian Moorish (aljamiado-morisco) manuscript J IX of the Madrid National Library. Castilian Moorish literature is characterized by being written in Castilian Spanish but using the Arabic alphabet and it presents a hardly known aspect of Spanish literature of the Golden Age. This manuscript is classified as "miscellaneous" due to its variety of topics, even though all of its chapters are of a religious theme. Among this manuscript's outstanding topics the following can be mentioned: the prophet Mohammed, other prophets, such as, Moses, Abraham, and Jesus, a judicial-religious treatise, an anti-Christian controversy, exemplary and traditional short stories with moral teachings. These topics are developed with an extraordinary richness of poetic images and it presents a magnificent polychrome of visual and sensorial images very distinctive of Islamic culture.