The memorial of Fray Alonso de Benavides, 1630 / translated by Mrs. Edward E. Ayer ; annotated by Frederick Webb Hodge and Charles Fletcher Lummis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Benavides, Alonso de, active 1630.

Contributor:

Ayer, Edward E., Mrs.

Hodge, Frederick Webb, 1864-1956.

Lummis, Charles Fletcher, 1859-1928.

Santander, Juan de, -1644.

Robert Dechert Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Franciscans--New Mexico.

Franciscans.

Missions--New Mexico.

Missions.

Indians of North America--New Mexico.

Indians of North America.

New Mexico.

New Mexico--Description and travel.

Penn Provenance:

Dechert, Robert (donor)

Physical Description:

xiii, 309 pages, XLIV leaves of plates : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm

Manufacture:

Chicago : R.R. Donnelley and Sons Company at the Lakeside Press.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Privately Printed, 1916.

Notes:

"Three hundred copies printed of which this is number 167."

Contains facsimile reproduction of original text and t.p.: Memorial qve fray Ivan de Santander de la orden de San Francisco, comissario general de Indias, presenta a la Magestad catolica del rey Don Felipe Qvarto nuestro señor. Hecho por el padre fray Alonso de Benauides ... En Madrid en la Imprenta real. Año M.DC.XXX (p. [79]-183).

Index: p. 289-309.

"This precious source was translated into English and publisher for the first time in Land of sunshine ... Los Angeles, California (vol. xiii, no. 4-6, Sept.-Dec., 1900; vol. xv, no. 1-3, Jan.-Mar., 1901)" An English version was printed in the New York public library Bulletin of November and December, 1899, from a transcript, by the late John Gilmary Shea--Cf. Introd.

Cited in:

Palau, 27146

Graff, 250

OCLC:

3501613