Scope and Contents Bound compendium of eight manuscript tracts on the Jesuits in Spain, Mexico, and Paraguay. Table of Contents Artificio de los jesuitas modernos en las cortes de los principes --Carta, que el Dr. Benedicto Arias Montano varon de insigne virtude, y de singular ciencia, y erudicionen las divinas, y humanas letras escrivio al rey Dn. Phelipe II desde Flandes... --Admonitio prima [-quarta] generalis circa hujus modi...

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Bound volume of 18 manuscript and 4 published texts concerning the Jesuits and their expulsion from France and the Spanish and Portuguese empires.

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Twelve-page manuscript biography of Baltasar Piñas, written in ink on 3 bifolia. The docket title on the verso of the final leaf indicates the manuscript was remitted to Father Joseph Guimara. Dated at the head of page 1 "Muerte del P. Baltasar Piñas 2 abril 1612" and dated again "abril 22 1612" at the conclusion of the text on page 8. Most sources give 1611 as the year of Piñas's death. Signed: Fran[cisco de Villalva. Final two leaves are blank.

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Manuscript notebook of 56 leaves written in a single hand, comprising texts critical of the Jesuits, including papal letters, contemporary gazettes, and a Spanish translation of Ivan Dominik Stratiko's Orazione funebre recitata in Breslavia nei funerali di Lorenzo Ricci ultimo generale della Compagnia di Gesu. Bound in contemporary limp vellum.

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Scope and Contents The 1st folded leaf; bound at the front of the ms. text, contains a letter by the expelled Provincial Procurator Antonio Miranda to the Count of Aranda detailing the "revelations of Saint Ignatius regarding the Society and forseeing the reasons for which the Jesuits would be expelled;" the 2nd folded leaf contains a ms. chart "Ràzon de los Pueblos de las Missiones Jesuiticas de ellas en leguas Españolas".., which lists the value of property (e.g., mules and burros) owned by the...

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Scope and Contents Four edicts or proclamations relating to the Jesuits in Portugal, likely manuscript copies of printed texts. Written in four or more distinctive cursive scripts. The first text (16 pages), begins "Nós D[o]n Fran[cis]co Cardenal Saldanha, visitador e Reformador G[er]al App[ostolico] da Religiaō da Companhia de Jesu nestes Reynos de Portugal ..." and is dated at end "Junqueria à 15 de mayo de 1758". The second text (8 pages) begins "Copia de carta escripta al Rmo. recttor del Colegio de S....

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This is an 18th century copy of an earlier manuscript prepared by Fr. Luis de Valdivia containing hundreds of biographies of Jesuits throughout the world, many of which are missionaries in South America, prepared for publication by Fr. Félix de Villagarcía (1687-1759). Includes index of names.

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Manuscript fair copy of an anonymous Spanish translation of Monita Secreta Societatis Jesu, often attributed to Zahorowski, though the authorship continues to be disputed.

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Scope and Contents Bound manuscript of 179 leaves, comprising 42 manuscript tracts critical of the Jesuits, including 2 folding leaves with watercolors depicting the imprisonment and executions of the Jesuits Gabriel Malagrida and Miguel Calvo. Written in two or more hands, the texts, recounting events of the 18th century through 1765, were likely copied from various sources. As evidenced by the spine title, this is the second volume in a collection about which no further information is known....

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Bound manuscript of approximately 250 pages, with 6 engraved plates by Domenico Pauner and François de Poilly, including portraits of Saint Ignatius, Saint Francis Xavier, and Francisco Suárez. The text is a synthesis of the philosophy and logic of Francisco Suárez, divided in two sections of 41 and 100 leaves with handwritten foliation.

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A speech by the interim viceroy of Peru, Miguel Nuñez de Sanabria, welcoming the incoming viceroy Diego Ladrón de Guevara, upon his arrival, and enumerating donations, including an enslaved person, to the Society of Jesus.

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Official manuscript copy of the royal approval of the order merging the Universidad San Gregorio Magno with the Universidad de Santo Tomás de Aquino.

Official seal stamped on first page, dated 1792-1793. Dated and signed on page 5: "en Quito, en quinze dias del mes de julio de mil setecientos noventa y dos años, Joseph Enqrique." Final three pages are blank.

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Scope and Contents A collection of manuscript documents relating to the disposition of the estate of Luis de Medina, a secular priest of the Diocese of Lima. A declaration of debts and creditors, dated Lima, September 2, 1578, is followed by the general testament given in Lima, September 26, 1578. This testament orders the payment of debts, the distribution of funds by auction of furniture, and other property, with remaining property left to Medina's brother, Pero Méndez de Herrera. An enslaved man, Domingo,...

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Manuscript fair copy of an unpublished treatise on the Eucharist by Nicolás de Olea, written in a cursive humanistic script. The existence of this manuscript was known to J.T. Medina, who notes in the entry for Olea's Summa tripartita scholasticae philosophiae, "Se atribuyen a Olea un Tractatus de admirabili Eucharistiae Sacramenti, 1676, manuscrito en 4o., y otros que enumera Torres Saldamando."

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