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Tomb of Hans Khevenhüller. Church of San Jerónimo, Madrid
Books of the Antonio de Cabezón and Tomás Luis de Victoria in the Madrid library of Hans Khevenhüller (1606)

The Austrian Hans Khevenhüller was ambassador of the emperors Maximilian II and Rudolf II before …

March 13, 2023
Madrid. Anton van den Wyngaerde (1562)
Madrid, first stage of Francisco Guerrero's journey to Jerusalem (1588)

The first stage of the journey to Jerusalem took Francisco Guerrero to Madrid, accompanied by …

March 13, 2023
Convent of Loreto with collegiate church of San Salvador at the back. Richard Ford (c. 1831)
Confraternities at the convent of Nuestra Señora de Loreto in Granada

Confraternities at the convent of Nuestra Señora de Loreto in Granada.

March 12, 2023
Title page. Juan Martínez. <em>Arte de canto llano</em>. (Alcalá: Diego de Angulo, 1565)
An unknown edition of the Arte de canto llano by Juan Martínez (1565)

Among the books donated by Plácido Arango in 2019 to the Library of the Real …

March 10, 2023

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The black dancer Francisco Meneses (†1687)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
31-12-2021

A poetic jácara from 1687 brings us closer to the black musicians who sang and danced in the cities and towns of the Hispanic crowns during the Modern Age.

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Sebastián de Vivanco and the musical libraries

Alfonso de Vicente Delgado, Michael Noone
06-12-2021

On three separate occasions, music books were found to be missing soon after Sebastián de Vivanco left important positions: first when he exchanged the post of chapelmaster at Ávila cathedral …

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