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Summary Information

Repository
Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Lilly Library
Indiana University
1200 E. Seventh St.
Bloomington, IN 47405-5500
Phone: 812-855-2452
Fax: 812-855-3143
Email: liblilly@indiana.edu

Title
Latin American mss. --Paraguay,1640-1862

Collection No.
LMC 1626

Extent
19 items

Language
Materials are in Spanish.

Abstract
The Latin American mss. --Paraguay, 1640-1862, consists of individual items acquired separately either as a gift, purchase, transfer, or removal from a variety of sources, relating to Paraguay. Additions continue to be made.

Access Restrictions

This collection is open for research.

Scope and Content Note

The Latin American mss. Paraguay, 1640-1862, consist principally of materials related to the Indians and the Catholic missions of Paraguay. Other manuscripts deal with military privileges, ecclesiastical patronage and finances, and the proposal for founding a university in Asuncion.

Bound volumes in the collection include Jose Sanchez Labrador's Paraguay Catholico en sus Principales Provincias reducidas a la Santa Fe and Paraguay Catholico: Harmonioso Entable de las missiones de los Indios Guaranis, written in 1772, which contain maps and vary from his printed work El Paraguay catolico, Buenos Aires, Imprenta de Coni Hermanos, 1910 (BV2853 .P2S211); Missiones vivas de la Compana de Jesus del Paraguay written by Ignacio Joseph Gonzalez in the eighteenth century; Silex de el el Divino amor y Rapto activo de el animo, en la Memoria, Ententimiento y voluntad, a theological work written in 1640 by the Jesuit missionary Antonio Ruiz de Montoya; and a book of devotions, Specvlvm Sine Macvla dated about 1750.

The Specvlvm Sine Macvla was possibly hand copied by a Guarani Indian for a Jesuit missionary. This manuscript was given by Saturnino Segurola y Lezica to Sir Woodbine Parish in 1824. In 1862 Parish sent it to Henry Hucks Gibbs, baron Aldenham. The manuscript also has the bookplate of Oscar E. Carbone of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The correspondents are Carlos III, king of Spain; Jose de Armendariz, marques de Castelfuerte; Tomas Donvidas; Francisco Antonio Escudero de Rozas; Fernando VI, king of Spain; Jose Gaspar Rodriguez Francia; Antonio Olaguer y Feliu Heredia Lopez y Donec; Sir Woodbine Parish; Alonso Portillo; Juan Jose Priego; and Jaime Sanjust.

Note on Indexing Term - "Law": There is a large quantity of legal material pertaining to Latin America in these collections. Royal and viceregal decrees, both de oficio and de parte, are especially numerous.

Note on Indexing Term - "Religion": A large quantity of this material relates to religious matters.

Note on Indexing Term - "West (U.S.)" and "Americana": There are items pertaining to early settlements and colonial government in Texas, California and New Mexico, and information on Texas independence.

• Indexing Terms

• • Names
  • Catholic Church--Missions.
  • Jesuits--Missions--Paraguay.
• • Topics
  • Missions--Early works to 1800.
  • International relations
  • Law
  • Religion
  • Americana
  • West (U.S.)
• • Places
  • Paraguay--History.

Administrative Information

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