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Lyrics for singing in the monastery of San Cristóbal.
Devotional songs and ludic theatrical performances in female convents in Valencia (18th century)

Devotional songs and ludic theatrical performances in female convents in Valencia (18th century).

April 21, 2025
Former location of Santa María Magdalena Chapel
Foundation of the chapel of Santa María Magdalena in the cathedral of Cordoba (1262)

On 28 April 1262, Gonzalo Yáñez de Palma made a donation to the Dean and …

April 12, 2025
Signature of Marcos Fernández (luthier). A.H.P.J., leg. 17, fol. 46r
Luthiers in Jaén during the first quarter of the 16th century

A visit to the Archivo Provincial de Jaén has allowed me to document the presence …

April 7, 2025
Meknes (c. 1725)
Celebration for the proclamation of Felipe V as King of Spain in Meknes (1701)

When the news of the proclamation of King Philip V in the territories of the …

April 1, 2025

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Procession of blood and disciplines during Lent in Seville (1285)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
26-03-2018

A brief piece of news from an apostolic brief by Pope Martin V, in 1285, brings us closer to the first penitential brotherhood that we know of in Seville. It …

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Inventory of the musical instruments and books for the wind players of the cathedral of Granada (1657)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
22-03-2018

The inventory of the “goods” of the Granada cathedral, carried out in 1657, provides us with a list of the instruments and minstrels’ books that the cathedral had on that …

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Zambreros (Moorish ensemble) in the Alhambra (1501)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
06-03-2018

 On 19 April 1501, during one of her stays in Granada, Queen Isabella the Catholic ordered a payment of four doubloons of gold to a group of "newly converted instrumentalist", …

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