Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• JOHN B. GLASS
• ROBERT WAUCHOPE
• HOWARD F. CUNE
• Η. Β. Nicholson
• Charles Gibson

Titel

The Boturini Collection

Ist Teil von

• Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volumes 14 and 15, 2015, p.473

Ort / Verlag

University of Texas Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The mexican indian manuscript collection formed by Lorenzo Boturini Benaduci (1702–55) in Mexico during the years 1736–43 was the most important such collection for Mexican ethnohistory ever assembled. Parts of it traced back to the earlier collections of Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl and Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora, and it was the main source for consultation or collection for such later persons as Veytia, León y Gama, Pichardo, Waldeck, and Aubin. When Boturini was arrested and imprisoned his collection was confiscated by order of the viceroy dated January 31, 1743. He was deported to Spain in late