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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
Former location of San Marcos Chapel
Foundation of the Chapel of San Marcos in the Cathedral of Cordoba (1258)

On 24 July 1258, Bishop Fernando de Mesa and the Chapter of Cordoba Cathedral granted …

March 15, 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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