Finding Aid to the Documents Relating to Peru, [ca. 1550-1850]
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Finding Aid to the Documents Relating to Peru, [ca. 1550-1850]
Collection number: BANC MSS Z-D 123
The Bancroft Library
University of
California, Berkeley
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Collection Summary
Collection Title: Documents Relating to Peru,
Date (inclusive): [ca. 1550-1850]
Collection Number: BANC MSS Z-D 123
Extent:
Number of pages: 83
Repository: The Bancroft Library
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please
consult the Library's online catalog.
Languages Represented: Collection materials are in Spanish
Information for Researchers
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Collection is open for research.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Documents relating to Peru, [ca. 1550-1850], BANC MSS Z-D 123, The Bancroft
Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Scope and Content
Manuscript copies of documents from the Additional Manuscripts Series in the British Museum.
From the collection of Alphonse L. Pinart.
item 1
Cacho, Fernando. Sobre el carácter de los indios del Perú
segùn lo pinta un militar español europeo, nombrado Don Fernando Cacho,
teniente coronel, que sirvió en aquel pais en la guerra de la independencia de Buenos
Ayres contra el alto Perú.
Scope and Content Note
(Numb. 1. 21-23). Copy of Additional MSS 17, 588, f. 63, Bauzá collection.
Original written in the early part of the 19th century.
Concerning the Indians of Peru.
item 2
Ocampo, Baltasar de, fl. 1610. Descripción de la provincia de Sant Francisco
de la Victoria de Villcapampa.
Scope and Content Note
(Numb. 1. 23-61). Copy of Additional MSS 17, 585, f. 1, Bauzá collection.
Addressed to Juan de Mendoza y Luna, marqués de Montesclaros, Viceroy of Peru.
Not dated; written about 1610; British museum copy made at the end of the
18th century.
item 3
[Sotelo Narváez, Pedro] [Extracto de la "Relación de las provincias
de Tucumán para el Il
mo. Señor licenciado
Zepeda, presidente de la Real audiencia de La Plata, hecha por Pedro Sotelo Narváez."
15-?]
Scope and Content Note
(Numb. 1. 62-64). Copy of Additional MSS 17, 585, f. 74, Bauzá collection. A
transcript from Simancas in the handwriting of Juan Bautista Múñoz.
item 4
Bandera, Damian de la. Relación general de la dispusición i calidad
de la provincia de Guamanga llamada San Juan de la Frontera i de la vivienda i costumbre de los
naturales de ella.
Scope and Content Note
(Numb. 1. 64-72). Copy of Additional MSS 17, 585, f. 75b, Bauzá collection.
The copy in the British museum was made by Juan Bautista Múñoz, from the
original in the archives of Simancas dated August 26, 1557.
item 5
[Relación histórica del Perù, 1775.
Extractos]
Scope and Content Note
(Numb. 1. 72-77). Copy of Additional MSS 19, 573, fs. 15, 17, 30b. "... supposed to have been
prepared for the use of the Viceroy of Perú, Don Manuel Amat y Junient and to assist
him in the drawing of his own report. Copied from the original MS in Buenos Ayres for Sir
Woodbine Parish in 1830": Gayangos' Catalogue of the manuscripts in the Spanish language in the
British museum, 1877.
item 6
Álvarez, Domingo, Franciscan. Copia de una carta que el Padre Fr. Domingo
Álvarez, Procurador general de Corte, de la orden de nuestro padre San Francisco
escrivió desde Lima al Reverendísimo padre Comisario general en este
chasque [!] que su fecha es de 29 de octubre de 1687.
Scope and Content Note
(Numb. 1. 78-83).
Describes the earthquake which destroyed Lima in 1687.
