The investigations carried out to find out who was responsible for the robbery at the …
A 1609 inventory lists two editions by Victoria. They likely correspond to the two mass …
The permanent incorporation of a group of minstrels into Guadix Cathedral took place in 1588. …
On 5 April 1255, Doña Lambra, wife of Lope García de Losa, one of the …
At the end of October 1403, the embassy of the Castilian King Enrique III, headed by Ruy González de Clavijo, visited the city of Constantinople. Emperor Manuel II provided them …
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 …
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 …
The composition of a specific musical repertoire for nuns’ religious profession is a relatively frequent practice when they belonged to a family with a relevant social prestige. Two events of …
In the summer of 1472, Cardinal Rodrigo Borja visited the city of his bishopric as legacy a latere of Pope Sixtus IV. The entourage arrived at the port of Valencia …
After the procession of the Holy Sacrament’s transfer to the Discalced Trinitarians’ new church in Malaga, the octave of feasts organized on the occasion of this event began. Different religious …
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 …
This event describes the triumphal entry of Cristóbal Vaca de Castro, the first governor of Peru, in the city of Cuzco in November 1542, after having defeated Almagro's followers in …
On September 21, 1715, the procession of the transfer of the Holy Sacrament to the new church of the Discalzed Trinitarians in Malaga took place. A large entourage, in which …
Francisco Perès (or Pérez) Gaya was the musician who longer occupied the post of chapel master of the cathedral of Avila (for 56 years). He knew the vicissitudes of the …