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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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Jesuit singers and black minstrels in the reductions and stays of the province of Paraguay (1628)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
09-04-2021

Some documents preserved in the Archivo General de Indias allows us to know the purchase of a group of eight black slaves, wind players, posted to the Jesuit reductions of …

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Jesuit singers and black wind players in the reductions at the Paraguay's Province (1628)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
08-04-2021

Some documents preserved in the Archivo General de Indias allows us to know the purchase of a group of eight black slaves, wind players, posted to the Jesuit reductions of …

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Jesuit singers and black wind players in the reductions at the Paraguay's Province (1628)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
08-04-2021

Some documents preserved in the Archivo General de Indias allows us to know the purchase of a group of eight black slaves, wind players, posted to the Jesuit reductions of …

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Manuela Escamilla's stay in Granada (1687)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
04-04-2021

Two notarial protocols document the presence of the company director Manuela Escamilla (Vázquez) in Granada between the end of January and the end of August 1687, probably to perform in …

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