Americas — The Americanist

The Americanist — the colonial record of the indigenous Americas, Zapotec testaments to the Andean chronicle.

The indigenous-Americas lane, colonial-era first: Ticha’s Valley Zapotec TEI (Córdova’s 1578 Arte, Agüero’s 1666 Miscelaneo, the testaments and their period Spanish translations), the Royal Danish Library’s Guaman Poma Nueva corónica (Spanish with Quechua and Aymara passages), and the UD Tupinambá and Old Guaraní treebanks of the Jesuit grammars and catechisms — the modern UD treebanks of American languages deliberately out.

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The shelves

A source wears every desk it serves — these three answer this desk. Holdings are read live from the catalog and dated; a shelf with nothing synced yet says so.

Languages on this desk (live doc-or-entry counts as of 7 November 2026): spa 1,280 · zap 2.

Carried in by multilingual packs (ud — whole-source members whose other languages ride along, as of 7 November 2026): lat 11 · grc 9 · orv 9 · ota 5 · lzh 4 … and 20 more (nabu axis americas lists all).

The desk’s instruments

No desk-specific instruments curated yet — the generic surfaces above apply.

Working the americas desk

The generic desk surfaces — every desk answers to these, in working order (enable once, sync, then query):

nabu enable americas               # first time: put this desk's shelves in this box's profile
nabu sync americas                 # fetch/refresh the desk's enabled members
nabu list --axis americas          # the shelf census, this desk only
nabu axis americas                 # the desk card: members, holdings, gold coverage
nabu search WORD --axis americas   # a query scoped to this desk's shelves

One of the 30 research desks; the flat shelf map is The Library and the reasoning is docs/axes.md.