Relación de las ceremonias y ritos y población y gobernación de los indios de la provincia de Mechuacan

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Author: Jerónimo de Alcalá (1571-1632) Year: 2000 Publisher: El Colegio de Michoacan Place: Zamora Description: 831 pages with frontispiece, color plates, figures, tables, illustrations, appendices, bibliography and indexes. Small folio (12" x9 1/2") bound in original brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover. Edited by Moises Franco Mendoza with contributions by J Benedict Brown, the "biography of Jeronimo de Alcala"; Heron Perez Martinez "literary art of the Relacion ; Jean Marie G Le Clezio "the universality of the Relacion "; Edward Seler "the ancient inhabitants of Michoacan"; Hans Roskamp "the native aspects of the Relacion and the 44 plates of the Relacion ; Isabel Teran Elizondo "symbolic and mystic elements"; Claudia Espejel Carbajal " archaeological and geographic guide to the Relacion ; and Pedro Marquez Joaquin "significance of certain wording in the Ralacion . Limited to 2000 copies. First edition. Commonly called the codex is Relation of Michoacan reconstructs the early history of Michoacán, as it provides first-hand testimony about the development and history of the Tarascan people from their arrival to the territory from Michoacan in the twelfth century until the Spanish conquest. The manuscript, whose name Relation covers ceremonies and rites, and population and governance of Indians of the province of Michoacan, which is preserved in the Royal Library of the Augustinian Monastery of El Escorial in Spain, and consists of 153 sheets of 20 x 15cm., acc

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