This document was drawn up in the provincial chapter of the Franciscan order, held in the Concepción de Jauja convent with Fray Juan Venido as general commissioner. The constitutions were printed in Lima by Francisco del Canto. It is a set of regulations for proper coexistence within the convent and...

Gramatica y arte nveva dela lengva general de todo el Peru, llamada lengua Qquichua, o lengua del Inca was published in Lima, Peru, in 1607. This volume is one of the first records of a language that did not have a written system before the Spanish conquest. It is a...

The Vocabulario de la lengua general de todo el Perú, composed by the Jesuit scholar Diego González Holguín, was printed in the workshops of Francisco del Canto in 1608. This volume reflects the impetus after the Tercer Concilio Limense to disseminate a standardized version of Cuzco Quechua as the general...

It is a compilation of the Jesuit Pablo José de Arriaga, dedicated to the viceroy Marqués de Montesclaros, from texts for the use of the members of the Colegio de San Martín. The book is very similar to a breviary or psalter for daily prayers that in the oldest Christian...

Pedro de Oña, born in the territory of the Viceroyalty of Peru, in Chilean Angol, is one of the most relevant Creole writers to understand the political and cultural transition from the 16th to the 17th century. He is especially remembered for continuing the epic saga of the Araucanians started...

This Relación, printed in Lima by Francisco del Canto, consists of seven pages, written in Spanish, to which were added, three pages written in Latin and related to the canonization of Saint Ignatius of Loyola. It describes how the good news of the beatification was spread with joy in the...

This document, printed in Lima by Francisco del Canto, is the translation of a memorial on the life of Julián de Alcalá, a Spanish friar of the order of San Francisco. The text, prepared by Fray Francisco de Herrera, presents the exemplary life of the religious, who, in the opinion...

In 1610 the first philosophical work written in American lands was published in Lima, the Commentarii ac quaestiones in universam Aristotelis ac subtilissimi Doctoris Iohannis Duns Scoti logicam or known mainly as the Logica via Scoti. The author of said writing was the Franciscan Chachapoyano Jerónimo de Valera (1568-1625), “hijo...

The Relación was published in Lima in 1610, in the presses of Francisco del Canto, in honour of the beatification of Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, by Pope Paul V on 27 July 1609. Thus, this event became known in the city of the Kings on...

This Alegación, printed in Latin and Spanish, forms the original documentation of the process for the beatification of Francisco Solano. It was entrusted to Francisco Carrasco del Saz, a doctor in Canon Law who was also rector of the Royal University of Lima (now the National University of San Marcos)....

The vast Vocabulario dela lengua aymara was composed by the illustrious Italian Jesuit Ludovico Bertonio and printed in the workshops of the Society of Jesus by Francisco del Canto in the city of Juli (Puno) in 1612. After a dedication -written in Latin- to the most illustrious Father Domingo Valderrama,...

Ludovico Bertonio contributed with his works to the evangelizing project of the Jesuits and to the knowledge of the daily life of the Viceroyalty of Peru. Thus, each book published by Bertonio is focused on the evangelizing action of the Aymara and responds to the guidelines defined in the Lima...