THE SALA DE INVESTIGACIONES —FONDO RESERVADO OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SAN MARCOS CENTRAL LIBRARY, LIMA, PERU

Abstract

The Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM) was founded in 1551 in Lima, Peru, and for centuries has remained the major university in the country. But during the past several decades, a number of other universities, both public and private, have been created in Lima, and San Marcos now shares with them a space that, until the mid-twentieth century, was almost exclusively its own. Today, the rare book and manuscript collections within the library system are among the most important in the country. A recent development has been the creation of the Sala de Investigaciones Bibliográficas-Fondo Reservado,1 which contains . . .