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Sor
Juana & Her Arch Enemy
(A Moving Thing to See,
& to Touch). Cruz, Juana Inés
de la, Sister. 
Manuscript
Document Signed. In Spanish, on paper. Mexico City,
21 November 1692. Folio (31.3cm; 12.25"), 1 p. (in a larger document extending
to 4 pp.)
In the year before her pen is silenced and less than three before she falls
victim to the plague while caring for her sick Sisters, Sor Juana attests to a legal document concerning her convent’s economic investments.
She was the nunnery’s contadora (bookkeeper). By way of horribly
evocative contrast, opposite her signature on the facing page is that of Francisco
Aguiar y Seijas, Archbishop of Mexico, the misogynist who caused her to give
up her writing and quasi-secular ways.
Able to bully the most gifted member of his religious community only following
the return to Spain of her last viceregal patron and protector, the Marquis
de la Laguna, Aguiar y Seijas applied increasing pressure to Sor Juana and the
prioress of her Hieronymite convent. It took him from 1688 until 1693 to put
“la decima Musa” “in her place.”
Documents signed by the polymath Sor Juana are very rare and highly sought
after; this one desirably shows the trust her Sisters placed in her. The
pairing of her signature with her arch enemy's is chilling and visually impactful.
• In very good condition.
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also appears in the HISPANIC
Their Judgment: FARCICAL Process, But
Enforceable
Policy . . .
Bolivia. Treaties.
1842. Manuscript Document Signed. Sucre, 10 December 1842. On paper,
in Spanish. Folio, 3½ pp.
Bearing signatures, among others, of Pedro Buitrago, Narciso Dulón, Eusebio Gutiérrez, M. de la Cruz Méndez, José M. Dalence, and Manuel Sagarnaga.
• Very good condition. Two small tears at folds, not affecting text.
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