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From Samaria to Bethsaida. <em>Descriptio et situs Terrae Sanctae alio nomine Palestina multis preclaris historys et miraculis utriusque testamenti a Christo Salvatore nobilitata</em> (1593)
From Samaria to Bethsaida. Eleventh stage of Francisco Guerrero's journey to Jerusalem (1588)

The eleventh stage took Francisco Guerrero and Francisco Sánchez from Samaria to Bethsaida, on the …

Oct. 25, 2025
Cantino planisphere –detail– (1502)
Bells for the first churches and monastic foundations in the Indies shipped from Seville (1494-1520)

Bells were one of the first objects that, along with liturgical vestments, gold and silverware, …

Oct. 18, 2025
House of Sebastián Tomás in Valladolid
Robbery at the home of Sebastián Tomás, chapel master of Valladolid Cathedral (1764)

The investigations carried out to find out who was responsible for the robbery at the …

Oct. 17, 2025
Cathedral of Tudela
Books by Tomás Luis de Victoria and other polyphonists in the Tudela cathedral (1549-1640)

A 1609 inventory lists two editions by Victoria. They likely correspond to the two mass …

Oct. 12, 2025

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The first referencies to the organ in the convent of Santa Clara in Sevilla (1483)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
06-12-2019

In 1483, Juana Sánchez, the daughter of García Ferrández, a sea-captain, established a pious endowment for which the Holy Trinity and the Visitation of Santa Isabel feast were to be …

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Purchase of a harpsichord for the cathedral of Almeria (1768)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
03-12-2019

In December 1767, the chapel master of the cathedral of Almeria, Antonio Ladrón de Guevara, writes a memorial to the cabildo of this cathedral exposing the interest of buying a …

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Apprenticeship contract with a luthier in Jaén (1647)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
24-11-2019

On March 26, 1647, the luthier master Rodrigo Godínez, a neighbor of San Ildefonso, in Jaén, received as apprentice Sebastian, fifteen, son of Alonso de Espino, a neighbor of the …

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