The Hans P. Kraus collection, 1500-1819.

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The Hans P. Kraus collection, 1500-1819.

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Letters, decrees, orderbooks, reports, instructions, dispatches, printed material, and miscellaneous legal documents concerning the history of Spanish America from 1500 to the mid-nineteenth century. Represented in the collection are Bartolomé de las Casas, Dominique de Gourgue, Philip II, King of Spain, Philip IV, King of Spain, Simon Pereyns, Giovanni de Verrazzano, Amerigo Vespucci, Bernardino Vázques de Tapia, and Juan Ruiz de Apodaca, Count of Venadito. Many of the papers document the activities of the Inquisiton in Mexico.

3 ft. (ca. 300 items)

Arizona State University Libraries

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Library of Congress. Manuscript Division

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The Manuscript Division was one of several "departments" established in 1897 when the Library of Congress moved from the United States Capitol to a separate building nearby. Its staff of four assumed custody of a collection of twenty-five thousand manuscripts which had accumulated throughout the nineteenth century, chiefly through the purchase in 1867 of Peter Force's collection of Americana, the gift in 1882 of Joseph M. Toner's collection relating to George Washington and American medical hist...

Kraus, Hans Peter, 1907-1988

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Bookman, collector, and bibliophile. Died 1988. From the description of Hans Peter Kraus collection of Spanish American documents, 1433-1966 (bulk 1500-1800). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980157 ...

Catholic Church

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During much of Doctor José Gaspar de Francia's dictatorship (1814-1840), Paraguay was without a bishop and the church was harrassed. From the description of Libro de providencias, ordenes, y autos : por Dn. Juan Antonio Riveras, cura rector de la parrequial de la Villeta : manuscript, 1804-1857. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612746619 An antiphonary is a book containing sacred vocal music, both the antiphons of the breviary, and the musical notes. An antiphon it...