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[Plantas de misiones].
[Paraguay]: [s.n.], [1704]
Physical Description: [2], 435 p. ; 23 cm. (4to)
Call number: Codex / Sp / 36
Accession number: 68-329
Notes: "Tabla de los nombres de los arboles y erbas in Castellano, Guarani, y Tupi", p. 361-368, is an index of trees and herbs in the Spanish, Guarani and Tupi languages
Text of manuscript written primarily in Spanish with some Guarani and Tupi words appearing throughout.
One of several copies of a manuscript compiled by the Jesuit brother Pedro Montenegro on medicinal plants in South America. For an account of other early copies of the same manuscript and a transcript of the copy in the Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid, dated 1711, see La farmacia en la América colonial: el arte de preparar medicamentos / Carmen Martín Martín y José Luis Valverde. Granada, 1995.
A copy of this manuscript, dated 1711, is housed in the Biblioteca nacional in Madrid and was transcribed and published under the title: Materia médica misionera, Buenos Aires, 1945. For an account of other early copies of this manuscript please see La farmacia en la América colonial: el arte de preparar medicamentos, by Carmen Martín Martín and José Luis Valverde, Granada, 1995.
Digital facsimile copy of book available.
Languages: Guarani / Tupi
Genre: Vocabulary
Region: Brazil / Spanish America
