Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Historical Note
Scope and Content
Organization and Arrangement
Indexing Terms
Descriptive Summary
Title: Peruvian Manuscripts collection
Date (inclusive): 1619-1824
Collection number: 1070
Extent:
3 boxes (1.5 linear feet)
Abstract: This seven volume collection of manuscripts and printed materials on colonial and independent Peru focuses on the late eighteenth
century, although its contents span from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century. Three volumes of Royal Decrees feature
important institutional information for the entirety of Spanish America, especially in relation to the late Bourbon military
reforms under Viceroy Theodore de la Croix. Fernando Quadrado, an important eighteenth century Spanish
oidor, appears prominently throughout the collection. The Peruvian mining industry is well documented in two volumes related to
Baron von Nordenflicht's controversial mining expedition and Pedro Miralles' relationship to the former.
Language: Finding aid is written in
English.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Administrative Information
Restrictions on Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. Advance notice required for access. Contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library,
Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of
the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the
copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC
Regents do not hold the copyright.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Purchase, ca. 1969.
Processing Note
Processed by Pablo Sierra, with assistance from Kelley Bachli, in the Center For Primary Research and Training (CFPRT), 2008.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Peruvian Manuscripts collection (Collection 1070). Department of Special Collections, Charles E.
Young Research Library, UCLA.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Historical Note
In the context of Spanish American history, this collection comprises the late colonial and early independence periods. Materials
related to the Bourbon reforms (1713-1806) reveal a genuine interest by part of the Spanish Crown and more specifically Viceroy
Theodore de Croix (1784-1790) to modernize its most important South American colony. Important indigenous uprisings are documented
in Royal Decrees sent by the king to key military officers and allies who put down a series of significant indigenous rebellions,
most notably Tupac Amaru II's 1780 uprising. Despite being a royalist stronghold, letters to the insurgent military leaders
José de San Martín and Simón Bolivar expose the extent to which the wars of independence affected all sectors of society.
Scope and Content
The Peruvian manuscripts span a wide range of topics, although there is a notable concentration of themes that revolve around
the interests of influential colonial administrators, mine and plantation owners. The first volume consists of various documents
directly related to Don Fernando Quadrado and the cases he oversaw as a late 18th and early 19th century royal functionary.
Both the second and third volumes of the collection center around the Chanca and Cachirín mines and the Hacienda Bellavista
in the central Peruvian province of Cajatambo. Historical characters such as Pedro Miralles, José Coquet and Baron von Nordenflicht
carry out a number of legal procedures for control of the mines and their indigenous workforce. A very lengthy dispute over
the permanent lease (emphytensis) of Nuestra Señora de Guia Monastery's landholdings are the principal focus of the fourth
volume, in which Fernando Quadrado reappears. The fifth, sixth and seventh volumes consist of copies and registers of royal
mandates, which address a very wide range of topics and illustrate the principal preoccupations of colonial rule as viewed
by the King of Spain and Viceroy of Peru. Materials related to the military reforms of the Spanish American armies, advancements
in shipping technologies, and concerns over tobacco production provide a very broad institutional history of Peru and more
generally for Spanish South America.
Organization and Arrangement
Seven bound volumes, numbered one through seven, are stored in three boxes. Individual volumes contain documents from various
historical periods, which are not arranged chronologically.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Mines and mineral resources --History --18th century.
Peru --History --1548-1820 --Sources.
Peru --Politics and government --1548-1820 --Sources.
Genres and Forms of Material
Manuscripts.