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Convent of the Minimes de la place Royale
Works by Francisco Guerrero at the Libraries of the couvent des Minimes and the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris

Works by Francisco Guerrero at the Libraries of the couvent des Minimes and the Muséum …

Sept. 2, 2023
Title page and colophon. <em>Viaje de Hierusalem</em>. Francisco Guerrero. Córdoba: [Diego Galván], [c.1596]
First printed edition in Cordoba of El viage de Hierusalem by Francisco Guerrero (c. 1596)

The first Cordovan edition of Francisco Guerrero's El viaje de Hierusalem has neither date nor …

Aug. 30, 2023
signature of the minstrels of Mairena del Alcor (1620)
Creation of a company of minstrels in the Mairena del Alcor (1618-1660)

In 1618 the council of Mairena del Alcor, a town belonging to the lordship of …

Aug. 26, 2023
<em>Missarum liber primus</em>. Cristóbal de Morales (Roma, 1544), fols. 1v-2r
Printed works by Spanish composers or printed in Spain in the Music Library of the Ducal Basilica of Santa Barbara in Mantua (1611)

An inventory of the music library at the ducal basilica of Santa Barbara in Mantua …

Aug. 13, 2023

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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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