Papeles de Nueva Espana: Coleccionados por Francisco del Paso y Troncoso, Segunda Serie, Tomo III Suplemnto 1: <i>Informaciones Secretas del Arzobispado de Mexico 1569

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Author: Paso y Troncoso, Francisco del (1842-1916) from the library of Professor George M Foster Year: 1947 Publisher: Biblioteca Aportacion Historica Place: Mexico City Description: 42 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's wrappers. From the library of Professor George M Foster . Edited by L Vargas Rea. Limited to 100 copies of which this is number 80. Modern scholarship continues to be deeply indebted to the labors of Francisco del Paso y Troncoso, less for any extended completed studies or synthesis than for a lifetime of collecting historical materials of the greatest importance to continuing investigation. His activities in Europe during the 23 years he spent searching out, copying and preparing for publication a vast store of prime documentary materials for the pre-Conquest and colonial history of Mexico have been abundantly documented. Paso y Troncoso saw his prime mission as twofold. First, he proposed to gather and publish as complete a corpus of Sahagun documents as possible. His interest in the great Franciscan had stemmed from the days when Paso y Troncoso as a young man had helped Joaquin Garcia Icazbalceta prepare the latter's Bibliografia mexicana del siglo XVI . Second, he expected to copy documentary source materials related to colonial Mexico, an elaborate group of varied papers which he generically called "Papeles de Nueva Espana." In a letter from Madrid, Paso y Troncoso outlined to the Secretary of Public Instruction his views and plan

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