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“Ángeles, Belen y Cuevas”. José Vicente Ortí y Mayor
Villancicos composed for the religious profession of nuns in the convent of Nuestra Señora de Belén in Valencia (1722)

Villancicos composed for the religious profession of nuns in the convent of Nuestra Señora de …

May 20, 2023
Title page. Francisco Guerrero. <em>El viage de Hierusalem</em>. Valencia: herederos de Juan Navarro, 1593.
The first Valencian edition of El Viage de Hierusalem (1593) by Francisco Guerrero

The first Valencian edition of El Viage de Hierusalem (1593) by Francisco Guerrero came from …

May 6, 2023
Chapel of the convent of San Francisco de la Alhambra. Picture by Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Confraternities at the convent of San Francisco de la Alhambra

Confraternities at the convent of San Francisco de la Alhambra.

May 3, 2023
Facade of the convent of San Francisco. Ventura Pérez (c. 1760)
Testament of Pedro López, guitar maker (1671)

The will of the guitar maker Pedro López (17/10/1671) provides us with some biographical information, …

May 2, 2023

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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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