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Historica relatio, de apostolicis missionibus patrum Societatis Jesu apud Chiquitos, Paraquariæ populos, primò hispano idiomate conscripta à P. Joan: Patricio Fernandez, dein ad typum promota a P. ieronymo Herran, procurate generali provinciæ Paraquariæ, utroque Societatis Jesu sacerdote, anno M.DCCXXVI. Hodie in lingua latinam translata ae alio ejusdem Societatis Jesu sacerdote.
Vienna: Mathiae Wolff, 1733
Physical Description: [40], 276, [18] p. ; 21 cm. (4to)
Call number: HA733/ V245h
Accession number: 07405
Notes: Chapter 1, part 4 is a brief section on the Chiquito language (p. 27-30), including general remarks in “De perdifficili lingua Chiquitorum” and two specimens: “Laudetur Sanctissimum Sacramentum” and “Formula ad Signum S. Crucis”, with interlinear Latin and Spanish versions.
Translation of: Relación historial de las missiones de los Indios, que llaman Chiquitos, Madrid, 1726. Father Muriel, in his Latin translation of Charlevoix’s Histoire du Paraquay (livre XIII, p. 199, note 5), states that the real author of the “Relación” is P. Domenico Bandiera, of Siena, who wrote it in Italian and entrusted Father Pedro Lozano with the translation into Spanish; Juan Patricio Fernández, given as author on the title page of the 1726 Spanish edition, was merely a contributor. Cf. Backer-Sommervogel 1:871; 3:654; 3:441.
Digital facsimile copy of book available.
Languages: Chiquito
Genre: Specimen
Region: Spanish America
