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Pojha Ñaña. Materia Medica Misionera o Herbario de las Reducciones Guaranies. Misiones. Año de 1725 por Marcos Villodas, S.J.
In Old Guaraní, with a few words in Spanish.
Produced in the Misiones Guaranies.
The index of f.1 relates to the titles of the remedies numerated only to f.48v; many numbers in the sequence 1-205 are omitted.
A contemporary title to the second part of f.35v reads: `Parte Segunda/Del libro de los Remedios del/H°. Marcos Villodas.'
This is one of a related group of MSS on indigenous materia medica written by such members of the Jesuit Guaraní missions as Pedro de Montenegro [1663-1728] (see WMS/Amer.41), Segismundo Asperger [1687-1772], and the prolific naturalist José Sánchez Labrador [1717-98]; with the difference that the present MS is written in Guaraní. [See Molinari (1937), pp. 7-70, and Furlong (1947, 1948), for the Jesuit medical missionaries and naturalists serving the Guaraní missions].

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