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The Archivo General de Indias, Sevilla: Some Observations on its Organisation and Use

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2010

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Archives and Research Centres
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Copyright © Research Institute for History, Leiden University 1979

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1. Cámara, Jose Marīa de la Peña y, Guia del archivo de Indias de Sevilla (Madrid, 1958), p. 73.Google Scholar

2. Cámara, Peña y, Guia. Lino Gomez Canedo, Los archivos de la historia de América. 2 vols. (Mexico, 1961), I, pp. 3136.Google Scholar

3. Burrus, E. J., ‘An Introduction to Bibliographical Tools in Spanish Archives and Manuscript Collections Relating to Spanish America’. Hispanic American Historical Review, XXXV, 4(11 1955), pp. 443483.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

4. Revello, José Torre, Él Archivo General de Indias de Sevilla (Buenos Aires, 1929).Google Scholar

5. The address of the Servicio National de Microfilm is Serrano 115 Madrid 6.

6. Catalogo de documentos del Archivo General de Indias (Seccion V, Go-bierno, Audiencia de Santo Domingo) sobre la época espanola de Luisiana (Madrid, 1968).Google Scholar

7. Documentos realativos a la independencia de Norteamerica existentes en archivos españoles. 6 vols. (Madrid, 1977).Google Scholar

8. Guia de las fuentes en el Archivo General de Indias para el estudio de la administration virreinal espanola en Mexico y en el Peru: 1535-1700. 3 vols. (Koln 1977).Google Scholar

9. Guia de las fuentes, I, p. 2.Google Scholar

10. For the University of Texas see Chester V. Kielman, The University of Texas Archives; a guide to the historical manuscript collections in the University of Texas Library (Austin, 1967). Carlos Casteñeda and Dabbs, Jack A., Calendar of the Manuel Gondra Manuscript Collection (Mexico, 1952)Google Scholar. The reader should also be advised that the University of Florida at Gainesville and the University of California at Berkeley hold fine collections of copies and film from the AGI.

11. In regard to British repositories see Peter Walne, ed., Guide to the Sources for Latin American History in the Libraries of Great Britain (London)

12. One should be aware of the large, general collections such as Colección de documentos inéditos relativos al descubrimiento, conquista y organization de las antiguas posesiones espanoles de America y Oceania (abbreviated CDI) 42 vols. (Madrid and Barcelona, 1864-1884)Google Scholar ., and of collections dealing with specific regions such as Gobernantes del Perú, 14 vols. (Madrid, 1921-1926)Google Scholar . The best example of the boundary collections is Maurtua, Victor M., ed., Juicio de limites entre el Perú y Bolivia, 12 vols. (Barcelona, 1906)Google Scholar.

13. Lockhart, James, ‘The Social History of Colonial Spanish America: Evolution and Potential’. Latin American Research Review, VII l(Spring, 1972), p. 8.Google Scholar

14. Hill, Roscoe R., Descriptive Catalogue of the Documents Relating to the History of the United States in the Papeles procedentesde Cuba Deposited in the Archivo General de Indias at Seville (Washington, D.C., 1916).Google Scholar

15. Hamilton, Earl J., American Treasure and the Price Revolution in Spain, 1501-1650, (Cambridge, Mass., 1934)CrossRefGoogle Scholar . Chaunu, Pierre et Huguette, Seville et l'Atlantique, 1504-1650, 8 vols. (Paris, 1955-1958)Google Scholar.

16. See Paske's, Te short essay, ‘Las cartas cuentas como fuente para la historia de los virreinatos del Peru y Nueva Espafia, 1521-1700’; in Guia de las fuentes, I pp. 4550Google Scholar . For the first comprehensive publication of , TePaske's investigations into Royal revenues see La Real Hacienda de Nueva España, la Real Caja de Mexico, 1576-1816 (Mexico 1976)Google Scholar.

17. Gongora, Mario, Los grupos de conquistadores en Tierra Firme, 1509-1530. (Santiago de Chile, 1962)Google Scholar . Visita hecha a la provincia de Chucuito por Garci Diez de San Miguel en el año de 1567 (Lima, 1964)Google Scholar.

18. As an example of , Espinosa's research in the AGI see his ‘El primer informe etnologico sobre Cajamarca, ano de 1540’. Revista Peruana de Cultura, no. 11/12(1967) pp. 541.Google Scholar

19. Elenor Melville is a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology at the University of Michigan.