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Relation de ce qui s'est passé de plus remarquable aux missions des peres de la Compagnie de Iesus. En la Nouvelle France, les années 1669. & 1670. Enuoyée au r.p. Estienne Dechamps provincial de la province de France.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Le Mercier, François, 1604-1690.
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Jesuits--Missions.
- Jesuits.
- Missions.
- Indians of North America--Missions.
- Indians of North America.
- Ottawa Indians--Missions.
- Ottawa Indians.
- New France--Discovery and exploration.
- New France.
- Penn Provenance:
- Dechert, Robert (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 10 unnumbered pages, 3-318 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 102 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 19 cm (8vo)
- Other Title:
- Relation de ce qui s'est passé de plus remarquable aux missions des peres de la Compagnie de Jesus.
- Place of Publication:
- A Paris, : chez Sebast. Mabre-Cramoisy, imprimeur du roy, ruë S. Iacques aux Cicognes., M.DC.LXXI. [1671]
- Contents:
- Relation des missions aux Outaouaks. / Claude Dablon: 102, [2] p., at end.
- [1. ptie.] Relation de ... la Nouvelle France les années 1669. & 1670.
- [2. ptie.] De la mission des martyrs dans le pais d'Agoié ou dei Iroquis Inferieurs
- [3. ptie.] Relation des missions avx Ovtaovaks.
- Notes:
- Letter of transmittal signed by author (p. [9]): François le Mercier.
- There are four known variants of this work: three of which are described in McCoy, J.C. Jesuit relation, 126-128, and a fourth in the John Carter Brown Library.
- Signatures: A⁸(A1 + *⁴) B-V⁸ a-f⁸ g⁴ (V8, g4 blank; a2 missigned a).
- Title vignette: vase of flowers.
- Cf. McCoy, J.C. Jesuit relations, 127.
- Privilege dated January, 1667. See final note in Church as cited below.
- Introductory letter signed: François Le Mercier. Letter, p. 208-263, signed: Pierre Millet. The last part, "Relation des missions avx Ovtaovaks" by Claude Dublon, includes letters from Marquette and Alloilez.
- Local Notes:
- Title repaired and backed.
- Corresponds precisely to none seen, but identical with Bell in nearly all points of difference there noted.
- (This is a "mixed" copy in respect of McCoy).
- Cited in:
- JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, 3:223.
- Sabin 39998.
- Backer-Sommervogel 5:970.
- McCoy, 126
- Bell Cat., 72
- Church Cat., 611
- Backer-Sommervogel II, 1773.1 (note)
- OCLC:
- 62482651
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