Intern Cecilia Contreras Discusses Her Work with Law Library Special Collections

The following is a guest post by Cecilia Contreras, an intern with the Digital Resources Division of the Law Library of Congress.

As an intern with the Digital Resources Division through the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities National Internship Program (HNIP), I was given the opportunity to work with a collection of miscellaneous legal documents from 15^th-19^th century Spain and Latin America. The collection, which consists of 5,300+ documents, is comprised of an assortment of items, including testimonies, marriage license requests, baptism records, wills and testaments, cases, and even letters concerning debt payment. A number of these documents are written in Cortesana, a handwriting style used in 16^th and 17^th century Spain, and make for some excep