Introduction
The Latin American Library is the repository of more than 150 collections of manuscripts, dating from the early sixteenth-century to the present day. In all, the library holds over 750 linear feet of manuscripts.
The collection includes ten original Mexican pictorial manuscripts dating from the early colonial period. Together with rare copies of unknown, lost or damaged pictorial manuscripts and a comprehensive collection of codex facsimiles, this collection of Mexican codices in the native tradition is the most important in the United States.
The Annotated Listing of Manuscript Collections provides brief descriptions and links to online collection guides, where available. Some guides are currently available only in print. A manuscripts card catalog also provides biographical, geographical and topical access points to the collection.
A brief history of the Manuscript Collections details the origins and growth of this importance scholarly archive.
Guidelines for Researchers
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