The unprinted half: manuscript and lost works on the indigenous languages of America

The Spanish philology of America's languages is remembered through the books that were printed. The standard Spanish bibliography of the field, Viñaza's of 1892, is built in two parts precisely because that is the smaller half of what he could find: of 1,188 numbered items, 694 carry a date of impression, composition or copy, and the remaining 494 are undated manuscripts or works known only because a chronicler recorded that somebody wrote them.