In the middle of the XX century, Paul Rivet and Georges de Créqui-Montfort gave the reference of an important Peruvian manuscript for the teaching of Quechua, guarded in the National Archive of Colombia. Today we know that it is guarded in the Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia and that, moreover, is...
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...
The Bible of the Poors, is a 15th-century woodcut book that shows how the process of evangelization was aware of new writing technologies. Handwritten religious books with miniatures did not offer the diffusion required by the clergy. Thus, this Bible was advanced at least a decade to the Gutenberg Bible....
Johannes Hoornbeek was a controversial theologian of the old Netherland Reformed Church of Calvinist line. His work during the seventeenth century was of special importance for the comparative study of religions, due to his interest in systematically spreading the Christian faith among the Gentile peoples of the whole world. Since...