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Cathedral of Cuenca
Documents about Tomás Luis de Victoria in the cathedral of Cuenca (1584-1730)

Four chapter agreements, six accounting items, a copy of a letter and three detailed inventories …

Nov. 25, 2024
Cristóbal de Morales
Autograph letter from Cristóbal de Morales accompanying the shipment of his mass books printed in Rome to Prince Philip (1546)

The discovery of an unpublished autograph letter by Cristóbal de Morales, dated 15 January 1546 …

Nov. 20, 2024
<em>Obras poéticas</em>. Ana de San Jerónimo, pp. 355, 359
Loas written for the religious profession of nuns at the convent of El Ángel Custodio in Granada (c. 1760)

In the edition printed in 1773 of the&nbsp;Obras poéticas&nbsp;de Ana de San Jerónimo, a nun …

Nov. 16, 2024
Location of the old Gothic choir
First organs of the Cathedral of Cordoba (13th-15th centuries)

In this article we gather the first testimonies about the organs of the Cathedral of …

Nov. 10, 2024

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Japanese dance in celebration of the Feast of Corpus Christi (c. 1590)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
17-01-2021

After his arrival in Manila in 1590, the Jesuit Pedro Chirino witnesses a dance performed by a group of Japanese in the celebration of Corpus Christi in which they sang …

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Pious endowment of a mass at the altar of Saint Joseph (1771)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
10-01-2021

Fernando Antonio Carrillo y Acuña, canon of the Cathedral of Seville, instituted the pious endowment of an annual mass on the feast of Saint Joseph, which began to be officiated …

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The baptism of the princess of Bacan on the island of Ternate (1559)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
08-01-2021

In October 1557, the Jesuit Francisco Vieira arrived in Ternate, one of the Moluccas Islands. Two years later, he wrote a letter to his companions in Portugal in which he …

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Processions for the transfer of the seat of the Inquistion court between Triana and Sevilla

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
03-01-2021

The problems and deterioration caused by the floods of the Guadalquivir forced the court of the Inquisition, located in the castle of San Jorge, to move its headquarters on two …

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