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SPANISH COLONIAL MANUSCRIPT: ACCOUNT BOOK FOR THE CHURCH IN LAJA, UPPER PERU. LLANO DE ASTORGA, FATHER ANTONIO DE. ET AL. Manuscript on paper, written in Spanish in several hands, Libro de fabricas, rentas, entra y quentas de la Yglecia del Pueblo de la Purissima concepcion de Laxa,
11 December 2020, 10:00 EST
New YorkUS$2,500 - US$3,500
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SPANISH COLONIAL MANUSCRIPT: ACCOUNT BOOK FOR THE CHURCH IN LAJA, UPPER PERU.
LLANO DE ASTORGA, FATHER ANTONIO DE. ET AL. Manuscript on paper, written in Spanish in several hands, Libro de fabricas, rentas, entra y quentas de la Yglecia del Pueblo de la Purissima concepcion de Laxa, folio (310 x 215 mm), manuscript title and 235 leaves, numbered consecutively and including 12 blank leaves after the first section, Laja, Bolivia, 1731-1794, Some light wear to corners, very occasional spotting. Contemporary vellum wrapper, two string ties missing, the vellum cockled by heat, upper cover indistinctly inscribed, vellum chipped on spine and on lower cover with loss.
A rare survival of an Account Book of the Church of the Immaculate Conception in the town of Laja, just 35 miles west of the capital La Paz. The accounts include purchases and constructions in the town, rents and historical data. The church was built by adventurous conquistadors starting in 1545, using stone from the nearby ceremonial Inca city of Tiwanuku. Just 3 years later, in 1548, the conquistador Alonso de Mendoza was scouting for a site for a city on the antiplano and stopped at Llaxa, a village of Aymara Indians, and decided to found the city of La Paz on that spot, but after two cold night at its altitude of 12,000 feet, he moved on down into the valley of Chuquiago and re-founded the city of La Paz.
A rare survival of an Account Book of the Church of the Immaculate Conception in the town of Laja, just 35 miles west of the capital La Paz. The accounts include purchases and constructions in the town, rents and historical data. The church was built by adventurous conquistadors starting in 1545, using stone from the nearby ceremonial Inca city of Tiwanuku. Just 3 years later, in 1548, the conquistador Alonso de Mendoza was scouting for a site for a city on the antiplano and stopped at Llaxa, a village of Aymara Indians, and decided to found the city of La Paz on that spot, but after two cold night at its altitude of 12,000 feet, he moved on down into the valley of Chuquiago and re-founded the city of La Paz.