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Finding Aid to the Documentos relativos a las misiones del Nuevo Mexico,
1605-1720
BANC MSS M-A 4:1
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Collection Title: Documentos relativos a las misiones del Nuevo Mexico,
Date (inclusive): 1605-1720
Collection Number: BANC MSS M-A 4:1
Extent:
Number of containers: 7 boxes
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
Collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services. Permission for
publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft Library as the owner of the physical items and is not
intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the
reader.
[Identification of item], Documentos relativos a las misiones del Nuevo Mexico, BANC MSS M-A 4:1, The
Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
The prints in this collection are arranged into six legajos and relate chiefly to the missions of New
Mexico in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. They were copied by the Library of Congress
for Professor France V. Scholes. He arranged and listed these documents in the Biblioteca in 1927. He
outlined his work and listed the manuscripts in an article written in 1928 for the
New Mexico
Historical Review
(Vol. 3:3, pp. 301-311, "Manuscripts for the History of New Mexico in the
National Library in Mexico City.")* [*The Bancroft Library has copies only of Legajos 1-6.] The titles
which are used in this Calendar are copied from Prof. Scholes article, except for two which were not
given in the article.
Folder numbers should be used in requesting these documents, as well as the archival citations.
Note: Annotated in Ignacio del Río's Guía del Archivo Franciscano for some docs. in
Legajo 1. Very difficult to correlate Río's and Scholes' descriptions. VCF 11/25/80