Project info
The Primeros Libros de las Américas: Impresos Americanos del Siglo XVI en las Bibliotecas del Mundo project is an international collaboration of more than 25 institutional partners throughout Mexico, Spain, Peru, and the United States that seeks to bring together digitally the first books printed in the Americas before 1601. The collection provides unique primary sources for a variety of academic fields studying Indigenous and Spanish American society during the sixteenth century.
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Book owners typically marked the fore-edges of their tomes with unique fire brands, or marcas de fuego, to denote ownership. The Marcas de Fuego project is an inter-institutional collaborative effort that seeks to document these marks of ownership.