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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
Old hall of the old town hall of Écija
Conditions for the contracting of a company of minstrels in the city of Ecija (1565-1569)

On 9/07/1565 the minstrel Gaspar Muñoz, representative of a company of minstrels coming from Marchena, …

March 7, 2023

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Chaplains and musicians in the service of Alonso Pérez de Guzmán, Fifth Duke of Medina Sidonia (1516)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Feb. 6, 2019

El Cathálogo de todos los criados mayores y menores que han servido a los excelentísimos duques de Medina, preserved in the Biblioteca del Palacio Real de Madrid, allows us to …

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Dance school in Granada (1574)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Jan. 26, 2019

The contract established in 1574 between Juan Ortiz, "master of dance", and the instrumentalist Blas de Torres allows us to document the first "school" of dance in Granada.

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