Relation de ce qui s'est passé de plus remarquable aux missions des pp. de la Compagnie de Iesus en la Nouuelle France, és années 1657. & 1658.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ragueneau, Paul, 1608-1680.

Le Moine, Simon, 1604-1665.

Jesuits.

Robert Dechert Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Jesuits--Missions.

Jesuits.

Missions.

Indians of North America--Missions.

Indians of North America.

New France--Discovery and exploration.

New France.

Penn Provenance:

Dechert, Robert (donor)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 136 pages ; 18 cm (8vo)

Place of Publication:

A Paris, : chez Sebastien Cramoisy, imprimeur du roy & de la reine., M.DC.LIX. [1659]

Notes:

This "Relation" was compiled from various letters and memoirs. There are two letters by Paul Ragueneau (p. 6-19 & p. 22-29) followed by a journal of what occurred between the French and the savages, composed from other letters and memoirs, including one letter by Simon le Moine (p. 29-58).

There are two known variants of this work: one in which the head-line on p. 41 reads "és années 1657 & 1658", and the other in which the same head-line reads "és années 1657. & 16 8".

Signatures: ã⁴ A-H⁸ I⁴.

Printer's device on title page.

Cf. Sabin, v. 16, p. 539, no. XXVII.

Foreword unsigned.

Privilege dated December, 1658.

Cited in:

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, 3:21.

McCoy, J.C. Jesuit relations, 101.

Backer-Sommervogel 6:1392.

Related Work:

Jesuits. Correspondence from North America.

OCLC:

29144255