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The Anselmo Pineda Fond shows a tireless collector in this colonel of the Republic. He was part of a national network of bibliophiles dedicated to collecting and exchanging printed materials. The fond covers the pure sciences, applied sciences, philosophy, literature, fine arts and jurisprudence, among others, and shows that Pineda's initial aim was to collect printed materials from and about Colombia, bearing in mind that the Republic of New Granada included Venezuela, Ecuador and Panama, so the material is pertinent to these four countries. There are 1,145 books (from 1774 to the 19th century) and over 7,000 documents, edicts and loose sheets, which are the only copies in existence in some cases.

The colonel took two steps to have his personal collection admitted to the National Library. In 1849, he offered to sell part of it to the Congress of the Republic, which was accepted in 1851. In April of that year, a new civil war broke out because of the emancipation of the slaves. The National Library's collections suffered damage and disorganisation, as librarian Vicente Nariño, who was semi-paralysed, was unable to oppose. Pineda was imprisoned until the government certified his innocence. In 1852, Vice President José de Obaldía appointed Pineda as custodian of the National Library's national works collection, which included donations from Joaquín Acosta, Manuel Ancízar and Pineda himself. One product of his appointment was the catalogue of these fonds. Pineda made the second proposal to the National Library in 1868. President Santos Gutiérrez accepted it by decree on May 30th of that year. In 1935, the catalogue of the Pineda fond - 1,110 volumes - was published, and in 1978, Leonor Pineda de Uribe Cualla donated thirteen volumes of files and manuscripts that had belonged to the colonel.