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Guitarra (1). Agustín Caro (1824). Private collection of Aarón García Ruiz. Picture by Aarón García Ruiz
Guild of luthiers or guitar makers in Granada (1815)

A document recording the contribution made to the state for the maintenance of the armies …

Jan. 27, 2023
<em>Santa Clara y San Luis, obispo de Tolosa</em>. Alonso Cano (1653-1657)
Confraternities at the convent of San Antonio de Padua y San Diego in Granada

Confraternities at the convent of San Antonio de Padua y San Diego in Granada.

Jan. 20, 2023
Dulcian player. Church of Santiago. Nurio (Michoacan)
Music lessons to Ana Martínez de Labandera in Valladolid (1642)

The contract drawn up on 11 September 1642 between Roque Pérez de Lara, a resident …

Jan. 15, 2023
<em>Cantica Beata Mariae Virginis</em>. Duarte Lobo (1605)
The polyphonic music library of the cathedral of Granada in 1667

The "Memoria de los libros de canto de órgano que hay en esta santa iglesia …

Jan. 12, 2023

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Saturday salve in the side street of the convent of Jesús y María in Granada

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
July 11, 2015

In 1725, a devotional image of Our Lady was placed above a gate that closed off a side street to the Capuchin convent of Jesús y María. Every Saturday afternoon, …

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Commercial activity and bustle in the streets of Granada (c. 1600)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
July 11, 2015

The chronicler Francisco Henríquez de Jorquera provides us with a colourful vision of the city's main commercial hubs and busiest areas, where street cries, the movement of carts and animals, …

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Religious profesion of Melchora de Mesa (1629)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
July 11, 2015

In 1629, Melchora de Mesa professed as a dulcian player in the convent of Santa Isabel la Real in Granada. She remained in this position until her death in 1650.

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Religious profesion of María Josefa Ruiz (1793)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
July 11, 2015

&nbsp;María Josefa Ruiz professed, without a dowry, as an organist in the Carmelite convent of Nuestra Señora del Carmen. She died on 16 September 1804 at the age of 32.

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