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Colonial Spanish Sources for Indian Ethnohistory at the Newberry Library edited by Gabriel Angulo, M.A LIS Colonial Spanish Sources for Indian Ethnohistory NEW WORLD General Sources. 3 UNITED STATES General Sources. 37 Arizona. 47 California. .50 Florida. 68 New Mexico. 71 Texas. 86 MEXICO General Sources. .89 Chronicles. 117 Baja California. 163 Chiapas. 173 Chihuahua. .174 Guanajuato. 177 Mexico City. .179 Mexico State. 181 Oaxaca. 183 Sonora. 186 Tlaxcala. 191 Veracruz. 192 Yucatan. 193 CENTRAL AMERICA General Sources. 199 El Salvador. 204 Guatemala. .206 SOUTH AMERICA General Sources. .227 Argentina. .232 Bolivia. 238 Brazil. 240 Chile. .241 Colombia. .245 Ecuador. 251 Guayana. .252 Perú. 253 Paraguay. 274 Venezuela. 278 Geographic distribution of the colonial Spanish sources for Indian ethnography available at the Newberry Library Manuscripts Imprints Modern transcriptions Totals & reproductions New World 3 48 3 54 United States 2 6 5 13 Arizona 2 1 3 California 7 1 13 21 Florida 1 2 3 New Mexico 9 6 4 19 Texas 1 1 Mexico 42 45 23 110 Baja California 8 2 10 Chiapas 1 1 Chihuahua 3 3 Guanajuato 2 2 Mexico City 2 2 Mexico State 3 3 Oaxaca 3 3 Sonora 5 5 Tlaxcala 1 1 Veracruz 1 1 Yucatan 4 4 Central America 6 2 8 El Salvador 1 1 Guatemala 8 9 17 South America 1 4 2 7 Argentina 1 8 9 Bolivia 1 1 Brazil 1 1 Chile 2 2 4 Colombia 4 2 1 7 Ecuador 1 1 2 Guayana 1 1 Peru 13 12 3 28 Paraguay 4 4 Venezuela 2 6 8 totals 135 147 75 357 2 NEW WORLD Manuscripts Historia de las Indias [manuscript] : libro segundo / Fr. B. de las VAULT Casas. Ayer 1559. MS 1057 391 leaves, bound ; 30 cm. A copy, in secretarial hand, of the second of the three books comprising Las Casas’ monumental chronicle of the discovery, exploration, and colonization of America, describing events which took place between 1501 and 1510. Las Casas begins with the settlement of the island of Hispaniola, under the governor Bobadilla, and later, under fray Nicolás de Ovando, comendador de Lares, and discusses the conquest of other islands as well, such as Cuba and Puerto Rico. He documents the Spaniards’ vicious treatment and cruel massacres of the Indians, and attacks the system of repartimiento which forced the Indians to work as slaves in the mines and plantations. He also describes how the Spaniards, when faced with a dwindling Indian population on Hispaniola, brought in additional slaves from the Lucayo Islands. A substantial part of the second book deals with Christopher Columbus, and includes an account of his fourth voyage, as well as material on his mistreatment at the hands of officials in the Indies; his repeated requests to the Spanish Crown for compensation for his services; and finally, his death in 1506. The ms. contains a preface, dated November 1559 and signed by Las Casas, in which he requests that the rector of the Colegio de San Gregorio not allow the Historia to be read for 40 years, after which time it should be published for the good of the Indians and of Spain. In Spanish. Butler, R.L. Check list of the mss. in the Ayer Coll., 1057 Cover title. Ms., signed. For more information on existing mss. of the Historia, see Lewis Hanke’s preliminary study in Historia de las Indias / Fray Bartolome de las Casas ; ed. Agustín Millares Carlo. Mexico : Fondo de Cultura Economica, 1951, p. 31-37. Contemporary full calfskin binding. Forms part of the Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library) VAULT Salazar, Eugenio Ayer MS [De los negocios incidentes en las Audiencias de las Indias] 1182 [1595] 3 Colonial Spanish Sources for Indian Ethnohistory [160] leaves, bound ; 33 cm. Legal memorandum on moral and legal questions, such as justifiable motives for the conquest, civil rights, due process, judicial and executive powers, and church and state relations. The author discusses 27 fundamental question of law, analyzing the legal arguments and the application of the laws behind those issues. He begins by questioning Spain’s authority in the New World and her right to seize Indian lands, and then proceeds to find legal authority for the conquest. He also provides legal arguments in answer to questions concerning the right of both secular and non-secular clergy to "doctrinas," or ownership of Indian villages; the powers, jurisdiction, and precedence of ecclesiastical judges; and the procedures for dealing with abuses of those powers. Other issues for which he provides legal defense deal with personal and civil liberties of the Indians, and the legality of the encomienda and repartimiento, or the forced labor of the Indians in the fields and mines. There are sections on the legal justification for, and exemption from, taxation; the legal establishment of the duties and powers of the viceroy, and his relationship to the Audiencia; and legal controls on the behavior of judges. Finally, the author discusses legal questions involving the administration of the Real Hacienda (royal treasury), the regulation of taxes, prices, monetary value and currency; and public accountability of judges and officials. The ms. is signed by secretary Cristóval Nuñez de León. Mexico Mexico City 1595 Manuscripts. Spanish jurist and scholar. Salazar studied law at the University of Salamanca, and received his doctorate in law from the University of Mexico on August 23, 1591. He was a judge of the Audiencia of Mexico, as well as a member of the Supreme Council of the Indies. In Latin, with summary of contents in Spanish. Butler, R.L. Check list of the mss. in the Ayer Coll., 1182 Probably Eugenio Salazar’s "De los negocios incidentes en las Audiencias de las Indias." See Biblioteca hispanoamericano septentional / José Mariano Beristain de Souza. Mexico, 1821, vol. III, p. 89. Front cover: "El dotor Eugenio de Salasar del Real [Conse]jo. de las yndias. Libro 1o. S[ecretari]o. Leon." Date from Butler. Contemporary limp vellum binding. Forms part of the Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library) Arguments disproving two misconceptions concerning the mita, VAULT or system of forced Indian labor in America [manuscript] [between 1810 and 1813?] 4 New World box Ayer [4] p. ; 22 cm. MS Unsigned, undated draft, possibly written between 1810-1813 during the 2169 existence of the Cortes de Cádiz, of two arguments in favor of abolishing the mita in Peru, the only place in which the system remains in operation. The relationship between the interests of the Indians and the interests of the state has always been an important issue for Spain. Since the national congress or "Cortes" will undoubtedly vote to abolish the "mita," and thus needs no further persuasion, the author, Jaureguí [?] seeks to educate the public by correcting two mistakenly-held views on forced labor: first, that without the mita, the mines in America would have been left untouched for lack of workers, given the difficulty of the work and the natural laziness of the Indians. However, history proves this case wrong, and the author cites Solórzano, who points out that more Indians voluntarily worked the mines in Huancavelica and Potosí than were forced. Furthermore, there was no mita in Mexico, yet there were plenty of Indians available to work in the mines at Guanajuato. Finally, the higher wages meant that the Indians would naturally want to work in the mines. The second myth to be disproved is the idea that the Indians are especially suited to working in the mines. The author notes that mines all over Spain and Europe have been worked for centuries by people other than Indians. The Indians’ strength as mineworkers is not due to some innate aspect of their constitution, but to the tolerance built up after many years of such work. If criminals are punished by sending them to work in the mines, why condemn innocent Indians to the same fate? The author hopes that the congressional representatives will vote to abolish the system of forced labor forever. In Spanish. Robles, E.G. Suppl. to the calendar of Phil. docs., 194 Caption title: "Pliegos de Jaureguí [?]." Dates suggested by textual references to the "cortes," possibly the Cortes de Cádiz, 1810-1813. Forms part of the Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library) Imprints Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo,.