Organería en la Diócesis de Granada (1492-1625)

Describes technical characteristics of organs and their registers in 30 churches and nine monasteries in the bishopric. The most important makers were Bartolomé Alguacil (active in the Granada bishopric, 1520-22), Gil Martínez, Martín Hernández (1524-58), Francisco Vázquez (1514-69), Diego Liger de Sanforte (1569-92), Juan Pérez de Sanforte (1572-82), Juan González de Usagre y Porras (1584-1604), Jorge de Mendoza (1575-1607), Enrique Franco (1587-1623), Juan Franco (1598-1603), Juan de Oñate (1590-1612), Martín Alonso de Aranda (1608-21), and Gaspar Fernández de Prado (1619-47). Appendices include transcripts of archival documents (lengthy excerpts are provided from documents of the chapter archive of Granada Cathedral), biographies of the principal organ builders, and facsimiles of their signatures.