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Old church. Sala de Legos. Monastery of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción (La Cartuja)
Confraternities at the monastery of La Cartuja in Granada

Confraternities at the monastery of La Cartuja in Granada.

April 6, 2024
Archivo de la Capilla Real de Granada. <em>Missarum liber secundus</em> (1582). Libro de polifonía nº2, fols. 82v-83r
Works by Francisco Guerrero at the Capilla Real in Granada

Works by Francisco Guerrero at the Capilla Real in Granada.

April 1, 2024
Door of the convent of São Félix e Santo Adrião de Chelas (detail)
Villancicos composed for the religious profession of nuns at the convent of São Félix e Santo Adrião de Chelas in Lisbon (1675)

Villancicos composed for the religious profession of nuns at the convent of São Félix e …

March 31, 2024
Convent of San Salvador (c. 1900)
Pilgrims' prayers and chants in the convent of St Saviour of Jerusalem (1602)

Pilgrims' prayers and chants in the convent of St Saviour of Jerusalem (1602).

March 31, 2024

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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

&nbsp;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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