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Relacion historial de las missiones de los Indios, que llaman Chiquitos, que estàn à cargo de los padres de la Compañia de Jesvs de la provincia del Paraguay. Escrita por el padre Juan Patricio Fernandez, de la misma Compañia. Sacada a luz por el padre Geronimo Herràn, Procurador General de la misma provincia.
Madrid: Manual Fernandez, 1726
Physical Description: 20, 452, [4] p. ; 21 cm. (4to)
Call number: HA726/ V245r
Accession number: 07404
Notes: Chapter 2 contains a brief section on the Chiquito language (p. 42-45), including general remarks and two specimens with interlinear Spanish versions: “Alabado sea el Santissimo Sacramento” and “La formula de hazerse la señal de la Santa Cruz”.
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 this 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
