Historia de la Librería Coral de la Iglesia Catedral Metropolitana de México durante el siglo XVI

Abstract

It is not the intent of this research to be a documented history of the Cathedral of México but of the coral library that was formed for its function. The reason of being for a Cathedral is to celebrate the highest adoration of God through the holy mass and the recitation of the divine office, both celebrations were made between the space for the choir and the main altar and they could not be accomplished without the aid of lithurgical books. To analyze the artistic-decorative aspect of the choir and its books exclusively becomes an inconvinient to understand the reason of being of the cathedral itself and its coral library in the midst of the political-social life of what was the Viceroyalty of New Spain. The subject matter of this work are the liturgical books, as well as the place were they were sheltered, offering an ample view that contextualizes the books. The research focuses in fringing the history of its creation, order and use in its totality and so that in turn its easy to understand fo the public interested in diving ito this topic in a way that it will serve as a reference for future studies of coral libraries of New Spain, covering different points of view such as the liturgical, the architectural, the historic, the artistic and of course from the library science one