Princeton University has a large digital library made of excellent collections. Among these are the miscellany of Mesoamerican manuscripts coming from other collections: Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts Collection (C0744), Garrett Collection of Mesoamerican Manuscripts (C0744), and Princeton Collection of Mesoamerican Manuscripts (C0940). Among the manuscripts in custody are: el Chilam Balam de...
This present document comes from the Hispanic Digital Library of the BNE and is under the title Papeles referentes al Estrecho de Magallanes (Papers referring to the Strait of Magellan). It is a manuscript copy of the eighteenth century that contains in addition to other documents referring to the Strait, the...
Libro dela vida y milagros de Nvestro Señor Ieʃu Chriʃto en dos lenguas, aymara, y romance, traducido de el que recopilo el licenciado Alonso de Villegas se publicó en Juli, Perú, en 1612. El libro relata de forma comprensiva la vida de Cristo, en 51 capítulos. El texto se presenta...
These detailed engravings on copper plate represent the arrival of the Spaniards to the New World and their encounters with the native peoples. The images are taken from volume IV of the book Americae (16th century), from the series Grands Voyages of Theodor de Bry, a collection that gave the...
The feminine culture during the Colony is the subject that Josefina Muriel develops throughout this work. She gives plenty of data on those our ancestor women that were the transmitters, although placed in a second plane, of the cultural values that constituted their world. It presents these women by what...
General history of things in Nueva España is an encyclopaedic work on the people and culture of central Mexico, compiled by Fray Bernardino de Sahagún (1499-1590), a Franciscan missionary who arrived in New Spain in 1529, eight years after the end of the Spanish conquest by Hernán Cortés. Commonly called...
The Catholic monarchy established its presence in the overseas territories on the basis of a high bureaucracy that − in the exercise of its profession− crossed all the territories of the empire. Viceroys, oidores, prosecutors, among other public officials passed through the Caribbean, the Philippines, Mexico, Central America and the...
Historiography has many paths marked out, but there are still new paths to draw. In the same way that historiography emphasizes some actors, it also forgets others. This is the case of the Pacific exploration: at the same time, as the crews lived the adventure of crossing the Pacific Ocean...
The occupation of the territory during the construction of the Spanish Empire was not only a movement carried out by European migrants who crossed the Atlantic to settle in the Caribbean and in the Spanish-American territories, there were also men who sailed from the coasts of the Viceroys, expressing the...
The viceroyalty of Peru was far from being a territory that projected its influence only on the Atlantic or the interior of the Andes. Since the sixteenth century, there was an interest in being present in strategic territories such as the transoceanic passage between the Atlantic and the Pacific. Mariners,...
With this English title America: being an accurate description of the New World, 1671: containing the origin of the inhabitants; the remarkable voyages thither: the conquest of the vast empires of Mexico and Peru, their ancient and later vvars. With their several plantations, many, and rich islands; their cities, fortresses,...
Joannes de Laet, Director of the Dutch West Indies Company, is the author of one of the most notable works of the XVII century on America: Novvs orbis, seu, Descriptionis indiae occidentalis. It is constituted by XVIII (18) books and complemented with diverse illustrations of the natural world and unpublished...