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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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Black slave wind players for the cathedral of Panamá (1677)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
15-05-2016

En 1677, poco después del traslado de la ciudad de Panamá a su nuevo enclave, se envían desde Sevilla cinco esclavos ministriles negros, entre dieciséis y veintidós años, para que …

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Procession of Corpus Christi in the Magdalena’s neighborhood (1595)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
05-05-2016

The confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament of the Magdalena church in Seville annually organized the Corpus Christi procession on the octave of this feast, touring the streets of its parish. …

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