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Villodas, Marcos (d.1739)
- Villodas, Marcos, d.1739.
- Date:
- c.1730
- Reference:
- WMS/Amer.31
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
About this work
Description
Pojha Ñaña. Materia Medica Misionera o Herbario de las Reducciones Guaranies. Misiones. Año de 1725 por Marcos Villodas, S.J.
In Old Guaraní, with a few words in Spanish.
Produced in the Misiones Guaranies.
The index of f.1 relates to the titles of the remedies numerated only to f.48v; many numbers in the sequence 1-205 are omitted.
A contemporary title to the second part of f.35v reads: `Parte Segunda/Del libro de los Remedios del/H°. Marcos Villodas.'
This is one of a related group of MSS on indigenous materia medica written by such members of the Jesuit Guaraní missions as Pedro de Montenegro [1663-1728] (see WMS/Amer.41), Segismundo Asperger [1687-1772], and the prolific naturalist José Sánchez Labrador [1717-98]; with the difference that the present MS is written in Guaraní. [See Molinari (1937), pp. 7-70, and Furlong (1947, 1948), for the Jesuit medical missionaries and naturalists serving the Guaraní missions].
Publication/Creation
c.1730
Physical description
1l., ff.60. 19.5 x 14.5 cm. Bound in modern vellum, with modern MS title-page.; Irregular gatherings; ff. 39 & 50 are single leaves. At least one final gathering is wanting.
Contributors
Acquisition note
Purchased 1962.
Biographical note
Marcos Villodas (d.1739) was a Jesuit missionary and surgeon. The little that is known of him suggests that he was a qualified surgeon who had spent some 20 years exercising his profession at the time of his death; he spent the years c. 1724-c. 1735 in the Guaraní missions [see Furlong (1947), pp. 62-63, 80-81, 96-97]. Furlong (ibid.), pp. 63, 74-81 rejects the common attribution of the Tratado de cirugía to Villodas in favour of Pedro de Montenegro who served with Villodas for a while as the only other qualified medical man in the missions.
Related material
At Wellcome Collection:
See WMS/Amer.41.
Finding aids
Described in: Robin Price, An Annotated Catalogue of Medical Americana in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1983).
Language note
Old Guaraní
Ownership note
Formerly part of the Guerra Collection.
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Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores