Manuscripts

Coleccion Pizarro-La Gasca

Description: Transcriptions of original material.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 19th century
Call number: mssPL
Provenance: Purchased from Maggs Bros., 1926.
Restrictions: RESTRICTED. Boxes 1-10, 21: fragile. Use digital surrogates, facsimile copies (boxes 11-20) or the two volumes of 19th century transcriptions of the papers. Originals available with curatorial approval.
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Coleccion Pizarro-La Gasca

Manuscripts

Transcriptions of original material.

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Pizarro-de la Gasca collection

Manuscripts

A collection of 946 items from 1537 to 1580, it consists of letters, manuscripts and documents, all in Spanish, documenting the early history of Peru, including Francisco Pizarro's civil war with Diego de Almagro and the pacification of the country by Pedro de la Gasca. It also includes material pertaining to the Catholic Church in Peru; missionaries; the conquest of Chile; the Native people of Peru; and enslavement of Indigenous peoples. There is material regarding the cities of Arequipa, Cuzco, Lima, and Quito. There are letters and decrees of Charles V and Philip II, letters of Gonzalo Pizarro and Francisco Pizarro, reports of Pedro de la Gasca, and Pedro de Valdivia's account of the conquest of Chile. Persons represented in the collection include: Juan de Acosta, Pascual de Andagoya, Francisco de Carvajal, Charles V, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Philip II, Hernando Pizarro, Pedro de Puelles, Pedro de Soria, Cristóbal Vaca de Castro, and Pedro de Valdivia. Also included are paper facsimiles of the original material and two 19th century volumes of transcriptions of the collection (the transcriptions are not in chronological order).

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Coleccion Pizarro-La Gasca [transcriptions]

Manuscripts

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Coleccion Pizarro-La Gasca [transcriptions]

Manuscripts

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Facsimiles and transcriptions

Manuscripts

This material includes both facsimiles and transcriptions. The facsimiles are paper copies made from microfilm by the Huntington Library after the collection was acquired in 1926. The transcriptions were acquired with the original collection and are bound in two large volumes. The transcriptions were created in Spain, sometime in the 19th century, and are generally accurate, although in a few instances the document is described rather than transcribed.

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Pedro de las Gasca, Bishop, letter to Gonzalo Pizarro

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Coleccion Pizarro-La Gasca

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Facsimiles and transcriptions

Pedro de las Gasca, Bishop, letter to Gonzalo Pizarro