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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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Buying and selling of instruments between individuals (1796-1797)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
17-12-2016

In this article, we present the data provided by the newspaper Mensajero económico y erudito de Granada on the purchase and sale of second-hand instruments between private individuals during the …

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Luthiers in Sevilla (1755)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
09-12-2016

The Respuestas Generales del Catastro de Ensenada corresponding to the city of Seville (1755) allow us to know that in this city six luthiers carried out their activity, whose daily …

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