Primera parte de la Choronica avgvstiniana de Mechoacan. En qve se tratan, y escriuen las vidas de nueue varones apostólicos, Augustinianos

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Author: Juan González de la Puente (1580-16?) from the library of Professor George M Foster Year: 1909 Publisher: Tip. de R.C. Miranda Place: Mexico City Description: 509+ix pages. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6 1/2") bound in half leather with raised spine bands and marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine. Published under the direction of Bishop Plancarte y Navarrete, with a brief bibliographical note by Nicolas Leon. From the library of George Foster . Second edition. Juan Gonzalez de la Puente, born a Spaniard in 1580, undertook to chronicle the Augustinians in Michoacan and to write the lives of nine "apostolic varones ". Part 1 of his Chronica appeared not long after its composition about 1623. In 1630 the chapter meeting of his province in Tiripitio, Michoacan, authorized him to publish the second part, but no trace of part 2 has to date been uncovered. In the extant manuscript, he wrote the biographies of the nine friars, scattered over three books. They are Juan Bautista de Moya, Juan de Median Rincon, Diego de Chaves, Sebastian de Trasierra, Francisco de Acosta, Juan de Montalvo, Francisco Lopez, Pedro de Vera and Diego de Villarubia. As a matter of fact, none of these belonged to the Michoacan province, but were from Santisimo Nombre in Mexico City; but as they had been active in Michoacan, before the latter was an officially established province, Puente included them. Book 1 contains no lives of these men, but instead is devoted to a wide range of topics. Among them is the dis

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