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Some Franciscan Sources in the Archives and Libraries of America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2015

Lino G. Canedo O.F.M.
Lino G. Canedo O.F.M.*
Affiliation:
Academy of American Franciscan History, Washington, D. C.
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IT is well-known that the Franciscans had a very considerable influence on the history of America. From the days of the conquest up to the present time, their labors have been outstanding in the sphere of American spiritual life by their extensiveness, their intensity, and their brilliance. In the missionary field, Franciscan activity was particularly conspicuous. Up to the end of the sixteenth century, the Franciscan missions were almost as numerous as those of all the rest of the religious orders together; Franciscan primacy was maintained in the seventeenth century, and from 1767 onwards nearly all the missions among the pagans, both in North and South America, remained in their hands, once the Society of Jesus had been suppressed.

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The Americas , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , April 1957 , pp. 141 - 174
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Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 1957

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1 La Instrucción pública de Caracas, 1567–1725 (Caracas, 1932), p. 139.

2 Carrocera, Cayetano de O.F. M. Cap., “La Orden Franciscana en Venezuela,” a series of articles published in Venezuela Misionera, II-VI (1940–1944).Google Scholar

3 The University of Texas possesses copies of a large part of the papers referring to Texas history. Those of a Franciscan character have been largely utilized by Carlos E. Castañeda in his voluminous work Our Catholic Heritage in Texas, 1519–1936. There are six volumes published to date (Austin, 1936-). The Academy of American Franciscan History is now preparing a detailed catalogue of the Franciscan documents in the National Library.

4 On this important manuscript is based the article of Geiger, Father “The Internal Organization and Activities of San Fernando College, Mexico City (1734–1858)” in The Americas, VI (1949), 3–31.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

5 Many of these documents have already been used by Father Gregorio Arcila Robledo in several of his books and articles which appeared in the review Voz Franciscana of Bogotá, directed for many years by the said Franciscan investigator.

6 Fr. Domínguez used these documents for his recent book, El Colegio Franciscano de Propaganda Fide de Moquegua, 1115–1825 (Madrid, 1955).

7 A large number of documents coming from the Franciscan archives of Bolivia have been edited in a review which it is not easy to consult nowadays: the Archivo de la Comisaría Franciscana en Bolivia, founded by Father Wolfgang Priewasser in 1900.

8 La Historia del Convento de San Carlos de San Lorenzo, by Father Teófilo Pinillos, O. F. M. (Buenos Aires, 1949) is entirely based on documents from these archives which it copies or extracts from throughout the whole length of the work.

9 See the works of Roewer, Father: Páginas de historia franciscana no Brasil (Petrópolis, 1941) and O Convento de Santo Antonio do Rio de Janeiro (Petrópolis, 1942)Google Scholar. In this monastery there is preserved the historical part of the archives of the province.

10 They are the books III-IV, the first edited by López Portillo in 1891 and the third by José Cornejo Franco (Guadalajara, 1942). Cornejo Franco also published (Guadalajara, 1945) Book IV of the Crónica de Tello, according to the manuscript preserved in the public library of that Jalisco city. Father Luis del Refugio de Palacio made erudite and most interesting notes to this edition of Book IV. See the general introduction of Cornejo Franco to the edition of the Book HI where an explanation is given of the grave paleographical error committed in the edition López Portillo and other details regarding the manuscripts of Tello are explained.

11 Smith, Clara A.. List of manuscripts maps in the Edward E. Ayer Collection (Chicago, 1927)Google Scholar; Butler, Ruth Lapham. Newberry Library. A check List of Manuscripts in the Edward E. Ayer Collection (Chicago, 1937)Google Scholar; Butler, Ruth Lapham A biographical check list of North and Middle American Indian Linguistics in the Ayer, Edward E. Collection (2 vols.; Chicago, 1941).Google Scholar

12 Published in full by Tibesar, Antonine O.F.M. in Franciscan Beginnings in Colonial Peru (Washington, D.C., 1953)Google Scholar, Appendix IV.

13 See the preliminary detailed study to the edition which Father Chauvet has made of the Relación of Mendieta, Anales de la Provincia del Santo Evangelio de Mexico, IV (abril-junio, 1947), 5n.

14 Gropp, Arthur E.. Manuscripts in the Department of Middle American Research (New Orleans, 1934).Google Scholar

15 Orozco, Federico Gómez de. Católogo de la colección de manuscritos de Joaquín García Icazbalceta relativos a las historia de America (México, 1927 Google Scholar [Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores, Monografías bibliográficas mexicanas, No. 9]). This catalog was prepared by Icazbalceta himself; Gómez de Orozco edited it with bibliographical annotations.