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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
convent of Santa Catalina, Santa Clara and Santa Isabel
Books and other liturgical objects in the convents of San Francisco and Santa Clara in Cordoba (1268)

After its foundation in 1265, Miguel Díaz de Sandoval, archdeacon of Córdoba, made a first …

March 28, 2025
Cathedral of Zaragoza. Photo by Sara Gimeno Laporta
Documents about Tomás Luis de Victoria in the cathedral of Zaragoza (1586-1608)

Two letters, two inventories, two chapter minutes, three accounting item, four receipts, a historical chronicle …

March 24, 2025

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Last organ of the convent of San José in Granada (1904)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
17-08-2018

The organ of the convent of San José was built in Malaga Cathedral by Aquiles Ghys in 1904 and inaugurated on 8 December of that year.

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Moorish dances and songs in the gardens of the Alhambra in Granada (1526)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
11-08-2018

Johannes Lange de Löwenberg, physician to the Elector of the Palatinate, Archduke Friedrich von Wittelsbach, provides us with an extraordinary account of the dances performed by a group of Moorish …

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Last organ of the convent of Nuestra Señora de Belén in Granada (1836)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
07-08-2018

After the disentailment of Church properties, in 1836, the priest of the parish of Santa Isabel de Huetor Tajar (Granada) requested the organ from the Mercedarian convent of Nuestra Señora …

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Dilettante musicians and street romances in seventeenth-century Granada

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
03-08-2018

The biography of the anchorite Francisco Velasco (Baza, 1577-Granada, 1622) allows us to approach two facets of the soundscape of Granada: domestic music and the performance of popular songs in …

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