Abstract
The Convent of San Francisco de Veracruz, founded probably near the year of 1656, remains as a witness of what was a bibliographic collection still to be investigated. Two inventories owned by the Library of the National Museum of Anthropology and History, written in 1723 and 1771, give an account of a Franciscan library then called "librería" (book store), which to 1771 gave residence to 179 titles and 279 volumes basically directed to preaching and evangelization. Chronicles, historical narrations, genealogies, hagiographies, etc., written fundamentally in Latin, some in Castilian, but also in Mexican, French and Italian constituted the bibliographic fund of this monastery. Both inventories describe the works in a species of catalog, with the name of the author, title and extension of the work. The inventoried titles are a testimony of the cultural heritage of colonial Veracruz.