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Historia general de las conquistas del nuevo reyno de Granada

Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita

1688

Detail from the binding of a manuscript codex shows text in Spanish "3. Soledad."

Spiritual autobiography

María de San José

1703-1710

Detail of a printed book shows branding marks ("marca de fuego") on the outer edges. Leather binding also partially visible.

Aqui comiença vn vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana,

Alonso de Molina

1555

Detail of an engraved city plan of Queretaro shows numbered blocks in the city layout.

Ordenanza que para la division de la m. noble y leal ciudad de Santiago de Queretaro en cuarteles menores, creacion de alcaldes de ellos, y reglas para su gobierno.

1796

Detail of a printed map shows text in Spanish reading "La Puna" and other labels over landmarks.

Carta de la Provincia de Quito y sus Adjacentes

Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville

1750

Detail of a colored manuscript map shows text in Spanish over Hispaniola reading "Isla de Sto. Domingo" with other smaller labels.

Descripcion de las costas de tierra firme de la America Septentrional

Antonio de Matos

1740

Mudo lamento de la vastissima, y numerosa Gentilidad, que habita las dilatadas margenes del caudaloso Orinoco, su origen, y vertientes, à los piadosos oídos de la Magestad Catholica de las Españas, nuestro señor Don Phelipe Quinto (que Dios guarde).

TAPIA, Matías

1715

Detail of a printed book shows red binding with gold details at the borders of the boards and all along the spine.

Guia política, eclesiástica y militar del Virreynato del Perú

Hipólito Unanue

1795

people sailing in a boat, shark in the bottom right corner

Textual Afterlives: Generating Editions and Editing Generations of Americana

Spring 2019

Printers' Devils and Printers' Delights: The Book in Spanish America

Fall 2014 - Winter 2015

Image depicting an angel hovering over Mary and Jesus

Women of the Page: Convent Culture in the Early Modern Spanish World

Spring 2017

four people standing outside the gates of a church

JCB Board of Governors Visits Important Sites in Oaxaca

February 15

group of people seated around a table, engaged in conversation

Summer 2018 Fellows Collaborate and Converse

September 11

detail of a page from a Mexican incunable book printed between 1539 to 1600

New Acquisitions

64 Mexican incunables and counting

May 5

photograph of Jaime Marroquin, assistant professor of Spanish at western Oregon university

Meet a JCB Fellow

Jaime Marroquín, Associates Fellow

January 16

detail from the relation de la mission apostolica de los moxos en la provincia del Peru 1696 by Diego de eguiluz