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In this article, we georeference a number of news items concerning the buying and selling …
The Corpus Christi Chapel, or Chapel of Santa María, in Córdoba Cathedral was founded by …
A receipt from 1656, signed by Tomás Micieces—choirmaster of Toledo Cathedral—records the existence of a …
The Hieronymite monk Fray Diego de Ocaña set sail from the port of Callao (Peru) …
The scant surviving documentation on the medieval altar of Santo Tomé in Córdoba Cathedral only allows us to confirm its position ‘behind’ the choir, on the Epistle side, and the …
In 1614, a new Seville edition of Francisco Guerrero’s Viaje de Hierusalem rolled off the presses of Gabriel Ramos Bejarano, a printer based in Seville; this was the first of …
This article presents a collection of documents relating to the shipment of books to the Cathedral chapter, their reception (including the opinion of the choirmaster), and their subsequent binding and …
The small fragments that have been preserved attached to the remains of the air ducts from the bellows of the organ built by Martín de Userralde and Mathías Salanova, in …
The altar of the San Cosme and San Damian in Córdoba Cathedral was endowed by Álvaro Pérez, archdeacon of Castro and canon of Seville, on August 11, 1435. The location …
In this article, we present the incipits of six texts to be sung at the ceremony for the profession of nuns, written by José Pérez de Montoro (1627–1694), which were …
Accounts (1600-1608) from the accountants of Archduke Albert of Austria record the acquisition for the Brussels court of polyphonic books by Tomás Luis de Victoria and probably Philippe Rogier, as …
At the medieval altar of San Dionisio in Córdoba Cathedral various pious endowments were made, and a number of burials in the surrounding area have been documented. It probably already …
The Archivio dell’Opera del Duomo in Orvieto (Italy) holds a copy of the Missarum liber secundus (Rome: Domenico Basa, colophon by Francesco Zanetto, 1582) [G 4872] by Francisco Guerrero, which …
With this article, we begin our journey through the Americas undertaken by the Hieronymite monk Fray Diego de Ocaña, which I shall divide into several stages, focusing on the sensory, …