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Port of Lisbon. <em>Civitatis orbis terrarum</em> (1572)
Slave minstrels in the royal galley (1572-1591)

In the last quarter of the 16th century, different groups of slave minstrels, made up …

July 4, 2022
<em>Don Juan de Austria</em>. Anonymous (c. 1575)
Instruments and music books for the royal galley (1572)

A document in the Simancas Archive provides us with a valuable testimony in which a …

July 1, 2022
Guidon of the confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament. Picture by Juan Ruiz Jiménez in the church of San Vicente
Endowment of a group of minstrels for the Viaticum procession in the church of San Vicente in Seville (1680)

In 1680, Inés Jacinta Manrique, “señora del donadío de la Torre de Quadros”, left in …

June 29, 2022
1. Church of San Cristóbal. <em>View of Granada</em> (1563). Georg Braun & Frans Hogenberg (1572)
Confraternities at the church of San Cristóbal in Granada

Confraternities at the church of San Cristóbal in Granada.

June 28, 2022

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Feast of the Incarnation (= Annunciation)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
12-07-2015

La fiesta anual de la "basílica" o dedicación de la iglesia parroquial de Santa María de la Alhambra se celebraba el día de la Encarnación, con la asistencia de cantores …

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Feast of Antonio Martínez de la Plaza's exaltation to the bishopric of Canaries (1785)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
12-07-2015

The serenata Los méritos reunidos was written for the feast of exaltation to the bishopric of the Canary Islands of Antonio Martínez Plaza (1785) which took place at the Colegio …

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Music lessons at the convento of Santa Inés (1628)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
12-07-2015

In 1628, a musician was authorized, temporarily,&nbsp; to give singing lessons at the convent of Santa Inés in Granada.

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