Inquisition Records 203 
MANUSCRITOS DE RAMIREZ (RAMIREZ MANUSCRIPTS). 
A collection of manuscripts written or gathered by the noted scholar, José 
Fernando Ramirez, while he was curator of the National Museum and in 
private life. The volumes in the Museum, which are only a portion of his 
collection, came from the library of the late Alfredo Chavero. 
I. “ Opusculos Histéricos.” 17 volumes. 
The volumes have tables of contents. Most of the manuscripts are orig- 
inals in the hand of Ramirez. The majority of them deal with 
ancient Mexico, especially native races and languages, where his 
interest lay. The following items have a direct bearing on the 
United States: 
Vol. 1., pp. 400-443. “‘ Estudio sobre la Nacion Comanche.” 
Vol. 10. “ Documentos sobre Gaspar de Villagra.” 
(A whole volume of documents concerning the personal affairs of the 
author of the metrical history of New Mexico, several of them being 
originals signed by Ofiate, conqueror of New Mexico. A printed copy 
of Villagra’s history is in the collection.) 
Vol. 18, pp. 123-157. “ Noticias del MS. 1588 de Biblioteca de Paris, 
‘Relation de Philippines ’.” 
Vols. 14 and 15 contain lists of Boturini Papers, with some of the papers. 
2. “ Extractos y Noticias de Manuscritos relacionados con la Historia de 
Mexico.” ‘Three volumes. 
Vol. III. contains several documents on the history of New Mexico, 
including: 
“Mercurio Volante, con la Noticia de la Restauracién de la Pro- 
vincia del Nuevo México.” ff. 357-441. 
(Evidently a copy, but an old one, for it is dated at Villa de Llerena y 
Real de Sombrerete, Mar. 20, 1761.) 
“Carta de Fr. Alonso de Benavides en que se da noticia de las pre- 
dicaciones que la Madre Agreda hacia en espiritu 4 los infieles del 
Nuevo México (1631), y fragmentos de la critica que un Jesuita 
hizo de esta narracion.” pp. 453 et seq. 
(The carta is printed with illustrated title-page, 16 pp., 16 mo. The critique 
by the Jesuit is apparently original, and is entitled: “ Suplica del P. 
Miguel G[u]errero de la Comp? de Jhs. 4a M Rs Ps de S France”. 5 pp. 
Only a fragment. The author scouts the idea of kings among the tribes.) 
Extracts from the history of the Jesuits in New Spain by Venegas. 
(A note says that these extracts were copied from the original, which 
existed in the library of Dr. D. Basilio Arrillaga, prelate superior of the 
Jesuits resident in Mexico; and that he took it from the University 
library, where it had been preserved since the previous century.) 
3. “ Papeles Varios, Recogidos por Veitia.” One volume. 
(The inside title is “ Papeles Curiosos Recogidos por Don Mariano Fernz. 
de Echeverria y Veitia, Cavallero del Orfi. de Santiago. Afio de 1760. 
Tomo I.” One of the subtitles is “ Negociaciones Politicas de las Cortes 
de Europa, y Caracter de sus verdaderos intereses distribuido en dos 
epocas, a saber, desde la Paz de Aquisgran hasta la Guerra Ultima, 
quedada oy en Alemania y America”. 
4. ‘ Anales de Mexico.” Three volumes. 
DOCUMENTOS PARA LA HISTORIA DE LA INQUISICION. 
(DOCUMENTS FOR THE HISTORY OF THE INQUISITION; 68 volumes.) 
Manuscripts from the Archive of the Inquisition, purchased from the 
library of Vicente Riva Palacio. Sefior Don Luis Gonzalez Obregon, who 
has studied them extensively, says that these manuscripts constitute the most 
