Varones ilustres de la Orden Serafica en el Ecuador : desde la fundacion de Quito hasta nuestros dias / por el Rdo. P. Fr. Francisco Maria Compte, misionero apostolico y cronologo del Colegio de San Diego de Quito.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Compte, Francisco María, 1854- author.

Contributor:

Iturriaga, Buenaventura, editor.

Language:

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Franciscans--Ecuador.

Franciscans.

Franciscans--Biography.

Colegio de San Diego (Quito, Ecuador).

Ecuador.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Philadelphia Rare Books and Manuscripts Company (bookplate) (Kislak Center copy)

Physical Description:

2 volumes : 1 illustration ; 23 cm

Edition:

Segunda edicion, corregida y aumentada por el mismo autor.

Place of Publication:

Quito : Imprenta del clero, 1885-1886.

Notes:

"Comenzó la impresión de esta obra en noviembre de 1884, y termina en mayo de 1886 ..."--Tomo 2, page 515.

Editor's preface signed: Fr. Buenaventura Ituriaga, M.A.

Biographical sketch of author in footnote, tomo 1, pages ix-x.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2022 from The Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts Company.

Kislak Center copy: each volume has bookplate ("PRB&M REFERENCE LIBRARY") on front pastedown.

Kislak Center copy: tomo 1 has small metal ruler laid in.

Kislak Center copy: some leaves in each volume damaged at corners or edges (some mended with Japanese tissue); holes in final leaf of tomo 1 with minor loss of text; portions of final 2 leaves of tomo 2 torn off and replaced with Japanese tissue with some loss of text.

OCLC:

4677281