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Bethlehemite Order Handbook

An inventory of the item at Syracuse University

Overview of the Collection

Creator: Bethlehemites.
Title: Bethlehemite Order Handbook
Inclusive Dates: circa 1700-1746
Quantity: 1 volume
Abstract: Handwritten and printed rules and regulations for the Order of Bethlehemite Brothers in Lima, Peru; bound into a single volume with limp vellum covers
Language: Spanish
Repository: Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Libraries
222 Waverly Avenue
Syracuse, NY 13244-2010
https://library.syracuse.edu/special-collections-research-center

Biographical History

The Order of Bethlehemite Brothers are a monastic order founded in Guatemala in the 1650s. They provided medical care and assistance to the local population throughout colonial Latin America; at its height the order ran 20 hospitals in various towns and cities. As of 2007 the order had declined to 17 members, all of whom were living in a single community at La Laguna, in Tenerife. (Two other Catholic orders are also known as Bethlehemites.)

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Scope and Contents of the Collection

The Bethlehemite Order Handbook contains handwritten and printed rules and regulations for the Order of Bethlehemite Brothers in Lima, Peru, bound into a single volume with limp vellum covers. Among the items bound into the volume are "Religion regla de Nuestro Padre San Augustin" and a papal statement granting privilieges to the order. All text is in Spanish. Two dates, 1739 and 1746; appear in the volume, but some items likely date from much earlier.

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Restrictions

Access Restrictions

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Use Restrictions

Written permission must be obtained from SCRC and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.

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Subject Headings

Persons

Balcázar, Bernabe.
Benedict XIV, Pope, 1675-1758.
Clement XI, Pope, 1649-1721.

Corporate Bodies

Bethlehemites.

Subjects

Monasticism and religious orders -- Catholic Church.
Monasticism and religious orders -- Peru.
Monasticism and religious orders -- Rules.

Places

Lima (Peru)

Genres and Forms

Incunabula.
Manuscripts (documents)

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Preferred citation for this material is as follows:

Bethlehemite Order Handbook,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Libraries

Acquisition Information

Purchase, 2024

Finding Aid Information

Created by: MRC
Date: 8 Apr 2024
Revision history:

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Inventory

Miscellaneous
SC 893 [Rules and regulations for the order] circa 1700-1746 - handwritten and printed items bound into a single volume with limp vellum covers
Contains the following:
Religion regla de la Nuestro Padre San Augustin - printed
Constitusiones de la Sagrada Religion Bethlemitca - handwritten
Actas formadas en el capitulo gral zelebrado en Lima el dia 11 de Junio 1739 anos - handwritten
Benedicto Papa XIV - handwritten
Clemens Papa XI ad perpetuam rei memoriam - printed, granting of mendicant order privileges to Bethlehemites
[untitled item] - handwritten, 1746, signed Barnabe Balcazar, two other unidentified names

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