Relacion Sobre La Pacificacion Y Poblacion De Las Provincias Del Manche I Lacandon

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Author: Pinelo, Antonio de León (1589-1660) f rom the library of George M Foster Year: 1958 Publisher: Jose Porrua Turanzas Place: Madrid Description: xxxiii+44 pages. Duodecimo (6 1/2" x 4 1/2") issued in wrappers. Introduction by Jaime Delgado. From the library of George M Foster . Number 153 of a limited edition of 225 copies. Secondd edition. Pinelo was born in Cordova de Tucuman, and educated in the College of the Jesuits of Lima. He traveled to Spain in 1612 and became attorney of the council of the Indies. Later became judge of the tribunal of La Contratacion in Seville, succeeding Gil Gonzalez Davila in 1637 in the post of historian of the Indies. He died in Seville. The "cedularios" permitted initiating the compiling works, because they provided order to legal texts. Using those as a base, several Spanish jurists started writing the so called "summaries", which were extracts of a new law or a mixture of several laws about the same theme. In this work, one of the first was Diego de Zorrilla, whose work was then revised by Rodrigo de Aguiar and lastly by Antonio de Leon Pinelo, who prepared a new project and in 1628 published the summaries of the 4 first books so they could be revised. Around 1615 Leon Pinelo began collecting all the decrees and ordinances that had been issued either by the home government or by the viceroys of the American possessions. He began publishing his works in 1623 Discurso de la importancia, de la forma, y de la disposicion de la colleccion d

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