Andrés González de Barcia and the Creation of the Colonial Spanish American Library / / Jonathan Carlyon.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
• VerfasserIn: Carlyon, Jonathan,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Book and Print Culture
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

One of early Enlightenment Spain's most important scholars, Andrés González de Barcia (1673-1743) produced more than two dozen critical editions of some of Spain's most significant works on the New World, many of which were already rare when he published them. In this highly origin...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Andrés González de Barcia as Commentator in the First Phase of His Scholarship on the Historiography of the Indies
• 2. The Epítome de la Biblioteca, Before: Seventeenth-Century Conceptualizations of the Bibliographical Mission: Antonio de León Pinelo and Nicolás Antonio
• 3. The Epítome de la Biblioteca, After: Bibliography as a Reflection of Andrés González de Barcia's Intellectual Project for New World Scholarship
• 4. Andrés González de Barcia's Creation of the Spanish American Library and His Edition of Gregorio García's Origen de los Indios
• 5. The Index as Scholarly and Political Tool in the Americanist Editions of Andrés González de Barcia
• Appendix: Complete Bibliography of González de Barcia's Americanist Editions (1720-1743)
• Notes
• Works Cited
• Index
• Backmatter