One of the few books published in Guatemala on music, it outlined rules for his cathedral singers in the colonial capital of Santiago de Guatemala.
Creators: Pedro Cortés y Larraz; printer: Don Antonio Sanchez Cubillas
Date of Creation: 1772
Place of origin: Santiago de Guatemala (current day Antigua, Guatemala)
Physical measurements: 20 pages
Materials: Paper
Process by which it was made: Print
Current location: Archivo Histórico del Arquidiocesano de Guatemala
Further Reading
Alfred Lemmon, “Reglas y estatutos del coro de la Santa Metropolitana Iglesia de Santiago de Guatemala,” Mesoamérica: revista del Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica 11, no. 19-20 (1990): 299-314.
Ana María Martínez de Sánchez, “Fuentes de archivo para el estudio del derecho canónico indiano local,” Revista de estudios histórico-jurídicos, no. 30 (2008): 485-503.
Kate van Orden, Materialities: Books, Readers, and the Chanson in Sixteenth-Century Europe (Oxford University Press, 2015).
Information contributed by Diane Oliva.