Catholic Communities and Books during the Early Modern Period (circulation, uses, business, consumption)

Friday 17th February 2012

The globalization of the European book market:

Diego Crancer’s Catalogus librorum (Seville 1680) and the sale of books in New Spain

Pedro Rueda Ramírez

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The list of books for sale, by Diego Crancer or Cranze

The Catalogus librorum, or List of Books of all Kinds for sale in the House of Diego Cranze in this city ([Seville]: by Diego

Cranze, 1680) is the first catalogue of books for sale to be printed in Seville, the first

in Andalusia, and the first catalogue printed in Europe

for the sale of books in Mexico

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Catalogo, o memoria de libros, de todas facultades … para vender en las Indias [Sevilla: s.n., c. 1689]

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Diego Crancer’s family

Diego Crancer’s family

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Catalogus librorum, ô Memoria de los Libros de todo genero de Facultades, que se venden en Casa de Diego Cranze en esta ciudad. [Sevilla]: Por Diego Cranze, 1680, p. 7.

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Books from “Flanders”

Sending books from Seville to the Americas

Aduana de SevillaAduana de Sevilla

Inquisidores en el Castillo de San Jorge

Inquisidores en el Castillo de San Jorge

Oficiales reales de la Casa de la Contratación

Oficiales reales de la Casa de la Contratación

Cajones de libros

Memoria de títulos

Hoja de registro

Embarque de los libros en los navíos

Embarque de los libros en los navíos

A B

The dispatch of books to Mexico was subject to two administrative procedures: those of the royal officials at the Casa de la Contratación (A) and those of the Inquisitors of Seville (B)

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The control process of the Inquisition in

Seville

Senders of books were obliged to present a list of the titles in question to the Inquisitors in Seville

The Castle of St George (the headquarters of the Inquisition in Seville)

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Diego Crancer to the Inquisitors of Seville

Most Illustrious Gentlemen,

I, Diego Crance, inhabitant of this city, affirm that I have these books [in the list] in the Customs House. I request licence from your lordships to transport them to the shores of the Indies without impediment.

Diego Crançe 9

The Inquisitors of Seville to the censors of the Holy

OfficePresented to the Holy Office of the Inquisition of Seville on 21 June 1680. Inquisitors Pimentel and Carvajal. And seen by these inquisitors, they asked that a censor of this Holy Office should see these books with regard to the interests of the Holy Office. Signed by one of the said inquisitors.By order of the Holy Office.Don Sancho de Flores.

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Pedro Zapata, censor, authorizes the dispatch of the

books to Mexico I, Pedro Zapata, priest in the Company of Jesus, master of theology and prefect of studies at the college of San Hermenegildo, censor of the Holy Office, certify that the books contained in in this list are not forbidden and with regard to the interests of the Holy Office may be transported. Seville 21 June 1680.Pedro Zapata.

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The Atlantic voyage

Seville Sanlúcar de Barrameda12

The Atlantic voyage1680

June July August September

October November December

Seville Cadiz Veracruz Veracruz Puebla de los

Ángeles

Puebla de los

ÁngelesDiego Crancer reached the port of Veracruz on 15 September 1680 in the convoy of ships that made up the fleet of Gaspar de Velasco.

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The Atlantic voyage1680

June July August September

October November December

Seville Cadiz Veracruz Veracruz Puebla de los Ángeles

Puebla de los Ángeles

Agustín López de la Cámara Alta. Plano de la plaza de Vera Cruz. Veracruz, 20 April 1793.

Seville. Archivo General de Indias.14

The languages of the titles Diego Crancer’s Catalogus (Seville,

1680)

Language Titles % of the total

Latin 409 67,5

Spanish 197 32,5

Total 606 100

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Structure of the Diego Crancer’s Catalogus (Seville, 1680)

Libri theologici in folio.Libri theologici in quarto et octauo.Libri juridici in folioLibri juridici in quarto.Libri medicorum in folio.Libri medicor. in quarto, et octavo.Libri miscellanenei in folio.Libri miscell. in quarto, et octavo.Libros de romance en general. De folio.[Libros de romance] Libros de a quarto, y pequeños.

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Structure of the lists of sales

Catalogus (Sevilla, 1680) de Diego Crancer

Catálogo (Sevilla, 1687) de Tomás López de Haro

Catálogo (Cádiz, 1760) de Manuel Espinosa de los Monteros

Libri theologici Libros Theologicos Catalogus librorum theologicorum

Libri iuridici Libros juridicos Librorum juridicorum civil et canonic.

Libri medicorum Libros de medicina Librorum medicorum, sicut et chirurgicorum, anatomicorum, pharmaceuticorum, botanicorum, & chimicorum

Libri miscellanei Libros Misselanicos, o de letras humanas

Miscellaneorum sive historicum, grammaticorum, philosophicorum, mathematicorum, geographicorum, politicorum, numismaticorum, & quorumque humaniores artes spectantium

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Formats in Diego Crancer’s Catalogus (Seville, 1680)

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Formats in Diego Crancer’s Catalogus (Seville, 1680)

Language Folio Quarto and smaller

Total

Latin 203 206 409Spanish 50 147 197

Total 253 353 606

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Formats in Diego Crancer’s Catalogus (Seville, 1680)

Type Folio Quarto and smaller

Total

Libri theologici 79 45 124Libri iuridici 55 34 109Libri medicorum 11 25 36Libri miscellanei 38 102 140

Total 203 206 409

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The representative of the Inquisition, Francisco Flores de

Valdés The letter to the Inquisitors in

Mexico

I have taken the Instituta of Arnoldo Vino and three a quartilla volumes of Juan Bisembacho in pandectas and the Instituta of Schenedeiuini y two small books in duodecimo on Florentine history by Nicolas Machiauelo and three octavo volumes entitled Origine juris romani as it has notes by Arnoldo Vino.

Which by my mandate I confiscate from Diego Cranse, a bookseller who came with the recently arrived fleet under don Gaspar de Velasco, and at whose request I issue this notice in Los Angeles on the 21st of December 1680.

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“…la Instituta de Arnoldo Vino…”Letter from the representative of the Inquisition in Puebla

Catalogus librorum, ô Memoria de los Libros de todo genero de Facultades, que se venden en Casa de Diego Cranze en esta ciudad. [Sevilla]: Por Diego Cranze, 1680, p. 5.

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The books confiscated in Puebla

The books confiscated in Puebla

Letter from the representative of the Inquisition in Puebla“…tres tomos de a quartilla de Juan Bisembacho in pandectas y la Instituta de Schenedeiuini…”

Catalogus librorum, ô Memoria de los Libros de todo genero de Facultades, que se venden en Casa de Diego Cranze en esta ciudad. [Sevilla]: Por Diego Cranze, 1680, p. 5.

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Matthias van Wesenbeke (1531-

1586)

Johann Schneidewein (1519-1568)

Matthaei Wesembecii, se trataba del jurista Matthias van Wesenbeke (1531-1586). In Pandectas Iuris Ciuilis et Codicis Iustinianei

Johann Schneidewein (1519-1568). In quatuor Institutionum Imperialium Iustiniani Imp. Libros, Commentarij]

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The books confiscated in Puebla

Letter from the representative of the Inquisition in Puebla“…dos libritos en doce de la historia florentina autor Nicolas Machiauelo …”

Catalogus librorum, ô Memoria de los Libros de todo genero de Facultades, que se venden en Casa de Diego Cranze en esta ciudad. [Sevilla]: Por Diego Cranze, 1680, p. 7.

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Arnoldus Vinnius (1588-1657)

Arnoldus Vinnius (1588-1657). In quatuor libros institutionum imperialium commentarius academicus & forensis

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Silver ingots

Silver ingot rescued from the galleon “Nuestra Señora de Atocha”, which sank in Florida in 1622. Museo de América de Madrid.

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