Inventarios [físicos] de las misiones de la Baja California* — mission-by-mission building/material…

State Papers, Missions, tomo I–V · BANC MSS C-A 50, document 75

*Inventarios [físicos] de las misiones de la Baja California* — mission-by-mission building/material survey of the entire Dominican peninsula: Loreto (church 56×7 v., cal-y-canto, 5 altars, 22 sculpture images, 2 gilt-silver custodias, 9 chalices, library 466 books); San José del Cabo (86 souls, chapel collapsed in floods); Todos Santos (church 24 v., *fragua*, cane-mill, 5 calderas + 2 alambiques for panocha & aguardiente); San Francisco Javier (church 41 v., dome); *[n107–111]* Comondú (3-nave stone church 30×13 v., 3 altars, 25 paintings, library 126 vols + 'una historia de California en 3 tomos'); La Purísima (25 v.; padres' house library 200 vols); Nª Sª de Guadalupe (32 v. adobe); ⭐ San Ignacio (single nave w/ *crucero*, 141×7½ v. = largest; stone-vaulted, 4 altars, rich plate, rooms lodging travelers/widows/orphans; 800 fig trees, 150 cattle); Santa Gertrudis (adobe/tule, poor); San Francisco Borja (32 v.); San Fernando [Velicatá] (33 v.); Rosario (46 v.); Santo Domingo (18 v.); San Vicente Ferrer (32 v.); Santo Tomás de Aquino (12 v.); San Miguel (26 v.) — church dimensions, roofing (bóveda vs. jacal/tule), plate, ornaments, page-refs per mission

Date1793 (year)
Placesin firma
SeriesState Papers, Missions
TomoI–V (volume range; this entry is not resolved to one tomo)
Original tomo pagep.i.562–671
Savage copy page106–111
Scan leafn105
Document typeabstract
SourceSavage abstract

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How to cite this documentsin firma, 1793, State Papers, Missions, p.i.562–671, Archives of California, C-A 50, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. [the tomo is given as the volume’s full range: this entry has not been resolved to a single tomo within I–V]Cite the document by series, tomo and original tomo page, as the literature does; the C-A number locates it in the repository. To cite this catalogue entry itself, use https://archivesofcalifornia.com/record/ca50/ca50-d75.html
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