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Francisco Guerrero in the private collection of music books and pieces of sheet music of Jerónimo de León (1629)

Francisco Guerrero in the private collection of music books and pieces of sheet music of …

June 25, 2022
Expenses of the chamber of Ruy Gómez de Silva y Mendoza, fol. 72r
Musical education and entertainments of Ruy Gómez de Silva y Mendoza, III Duke of Pastrana (1599-1600)

Different Pliegos of the expenses of the chamber of the III Duke, Ruy Gómez de …

June 14, 2022
<em>Liber vesperarum</em>. E-V Impreso 2[2]
Works by Francisco Guerrero in the Valladolid cathedral

Works by Francisco Guerrero in the Valladolid cathedral.

June 12, 2022
San Marcos bridge
The entry of the knight Suero de Quiñones into León (1434)

After thirty days of the tournament organised by the knight Suero de Quiñones at the …

June 8, 2022

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Procession of blood and disciplines during Lent in Seville (1285)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
26-03-2018

A brief piece of news from an apostolic brief by Pope Martin V, in 1285, brings us closer to the first penitential brotherhood that we know of in Seville. It …

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Inventory of the musical instruments and books for the wind players of the cathedral of Granada (1657)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
22-03-2018

The inventory of the “goods” of the Granada cathedral, carried out in 1657, provides us with a list of the instruments and minstrels’ books that the cathedral had on that …

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Zambreros (Moorish ensemble) in the Alhambra (1501)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
06-03-2018

&nbsp;On 19 April 1501, during one of her stays in Granada, Queen Isabella the Catholic ordered a payment of four doubloons of gold to a group of "newly converted instrumentalist", …

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