COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
07-122
Record number:
07-122
JCB call number:
Me850 N322m / OVERSIZE
Image title:
Mapa de la suntuosa Biblioteca del insigne Seminario Palafoxiano de la Puebla de los Angeles, erigida a beneficio comun Año de 1771.
Creator 1:
Miguel Jerónimo Zendejas
Creator 1 dates:
1724-1815
Creator 1 role:
del.
Creator 2:
José de Nava
Creator 2 dates:
1735-1815
Creator 2 role:
sc.
Place image published:
[Puebla de los Angeles]
Image date:
1850?
Image function:
broadside
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
40 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width:
51.3 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height:
46.2 cm.
Page dimension width:
62.6 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
Spanish
Description:
A gentleman and members of the clergy admire and work in a library. Includes bookcases, desk, Classical altarpiece containing symbolic elements such as the Lamb of God, the Virgin Mary as the seat of wisdom holding the Christ Child, and the dove of the Holy Spirit. Also includes portrait of a winged Saint Thomas Aquinas holding a quill and a book.
notes:
The library depicted, now called the Biblioteca Palafoxiana, is in Puebla, Mexico, and was founded as part of a seminary by Juan de Palafox y Mendoza in 1648. Palafox donated his own book collection to the library, and in the eighteenth century (probably around 1773) Bishop Francisco Fabián y Fuero donated his personal library, the bookcases, and altarpiece that are still in situ. This is the only library from the Colonial period surviving in the Americas.
Time Period:
1801-1850
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 2007.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Spanish America
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject headings:
Biblioteca Palafoxiana (Puebla, Mexico)
Subject headings:
Libraries--Mexico
Mapa de la suntuosa Biblioteca del insigne Seminario Palafoxiano de la Puebla de los Angel...
