Narrative and Critical History of America, Vol. 1 (of 8) / Aboriginal America

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[868] Cf. Vol. II. p. 418.

[869] Anales del Museo Nacional, iii. 4, 120; Brinton’s Am. Hero Myths, 78. Bandelier, in N. Y. Hist. Soc. Proc., November, 1879, used a portion of the MS. as printed by Sir Thomas Phillipps (Amer. Antiq. Soc. Proc., i. 115) under the title of Historia de los Yndios Mexicanos, por Juan de Tovar; Cura et impensis Dni Thomæ Phillipps, Bart. (privately printed at Middle Hill, 1860. See Squier Catalogue, no. 1417). The document is translated by Henry Phillipps, Jr., in the Proc. Amer. Philosophical Soc. (Philad.), xxi. 616.

[870] Vol. II. p. 419. Brasseur de Bourbourg’s Bibl. Mex.-Guat., p. 59. He used a MS. copy in the Force collection.

[871] This is true of Acosta and Davila Padilla. The bibliography of Acosta has been given elsewhere (Vol. II. p. 420). His books v., vi., and vii. cover the ancient history of the country. He used the MSS. of Duran (Brasseur, Bibl. Mex.-Guat., p. 2), and his correspondence with Tobar, preserved in the Lenox library, has been edited by Icazbalceta in his Don Fray Zumárraga (Mexico, 1881). Of the Provincia de Santiago and the Varia historia of Davila Padilla, the bibliography has been told in another place. (Cf. Vol. II. pp. 399-400[; Sabin, v. 18780-1; Brasseur de Bourbourg’s Bibl. Mex.-Guat., p. 53; Del Monte Library, no. 126.) Ternaux was not wrong in ascribing great value to the books.]

[872] Peter of Ghent. Cf. Vol. II. p. 417.

[873] Chronica Compendiosissima ab exordio mundi per Amandum Zierixcensem, adjectæ sunt epistolæ ex nova maris Oceani Hispania ad nos transmissæ (Antwerp, 1534). The subjoined letters here mentioned are, beside that referred to, two others written in Mexico (1531), by Martin of Valencia and Bishop Zumárraga (Sabin, i. no. 994; Quaritch, 362, no. 28583, £7 10). Icazbalceta (Bib. Mex. del Siglo xvi., i. p. 33) gives a long account of Gante. There is a French version of the letter in Ternaux’s Collection.

[874] See Vol. II. p. 397. Cf. Prescott, ii. 95. The first part of the Historia is on the religious rites of the natives; the second on their conversion to Christianity; the third on their chronology, etc.

[875] Cf. Icazbalceta’s Bibl. Mexicana, p. 220, with references; Pilling’s Proof-sheets, no. 2600, etc.

[876] Pilling, no. 2817, etc.

[877] Properly, Bernardino Ribeira; named from his birthplace, Sahagún, in Spain. Chavero’s Sahagún (Mexico, 1877).