Gil González Dávila, Teatro eclesiástico de la primitiva iglesia de las Indias Occidentales (Madrid, 1649)

The crown chronicler's see-by-see inventory of the American church, printed at Madrid in 1649. Its dedication counts what the monarchy had founded overseas - sees, prebends, convents, universities, colleges, hospitals - and its pages carry the same institutions again city by city with dates, endowments and staff. The counts sit beside an epidemic that the same pages say killed five of every six Indians.