Cronica Franciscana de las Provincias del Peru

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Author: Cordova Salinas, Diego de (1591-c1654) Year: 1957 Publisher: Academy of American Franciscan History Place: Washington, DC Description: xciii+1195 pages with frontispiece, illustrations, bibliography and index. Quarto (11 3/4" x 8 1/4") issued in wrappers and rebound in quarter leather with gilt lettering to spine with original wrappers bound in. Introduction and notes by Lino G Canedo. Foreword by Antonine Tibsear. Franciscan Historical Classics, Volume I. Limited to 750 copies. First published in Lima in 1651. Second edition. Fray Diego de Cordova Salinas lived in Lima 1591-1654. In 1620 he was appointed notario apostolico of the Franciscan Order with the task of collecting canonical information on the life and the virtues of friars, who had died with a reputation for sanctity (muertos en opinion de santidad). Already at this time he seems to have been commissioned to write the chronicle of the Franciscan provinces of Peru, i.e., of all the Spanish possessions in South America. During the following decades he was busy with this collecting information and with composing biographies and relations, some of them lost, some preserved in manuscript, others published by the author himself. All these works can be regarded as preparatory studies to his opus magnum: the Cronica franciscana , printed in Lima in 1651. This work contains data on diverse subjects: geography, ethnography, ethnology, history. Fray Diego, however, pays attention chiefly to the activities of the Franc

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