Catholic monasteries served as major book collecting centers in Spanish South America

Evidence

The interior of the library of the monastery of San Francisco in Lima, Peru, founded in 1673. In Spanish South America, dominated by the Catholic orders, monasteries fulfilled a prominent role as centres of education, research and book collecting. — Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen, The Library- A Fragile History, 956

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to monastic library traditions in medieval Europe and the Spanish colonial book trade.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen, The Library- A Fragile History, 956