The library Juan de Palafox gave to the Colegio de San Pedro of Puebla, 1646

A bishop of Puebla endowed a Tridentine college in 1646 and gave it his books; the crown's own chronicler, writing three years later while the donor still lived, records the dowry, the date of the erection and a second library of four thousand volumes left with the episcopal house — and, in the same list of merits, the idols that bishop pulled down. Thirty years on a bishop of Antequera gave his library to the seminary of Oaxaca, which is how one gift becomes visible as a habit.