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The Hans P. Kraus collection
Title
The Hans P. Kraus collection, 1500-1819.
Physical Description
3 ft. (ca. 300 items)
Language
Spanish
Local Notes
Guide has call no.: SML Reference Z6621 U58 K7 (LC)
Notes
The collection is in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress (no. DM14,833) to which it was given by Mr. Kraus in 1969.
Transcriptions of the manuscripts were published in Mexico by Ediciones del Frente de Afirmación Hispanista, 1973, under title: Un cedulario mexicano del siglo XVI.
Described in Hans P. Kraus Collection of Hispanic American manuscripts; a guide, compiled by J. Benedict Warren and published by the Library of Congress in 1974.
Microfilm includes a listing of the items (numbered 1-162) with brief descriptions.
Microfilm. Washington : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1970. 4 reels. 35 mm.
Library of Congress, Manuscript Division.
Summary
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.
Variant and related titles
Spanish American documents collection, 1500-1819.
Kraus collection, 1500-1819.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts / Microforms
Added to Catalog
March 28, 2005
Also listed under
Library of Congress. Manuscript Division.
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