Translation, by Louis Conart, of: La vida, que hizo el siervo de Dios Gregorio Lopez, first printed Mexico City, 1613.

Dedication, p. [3-6], 1st count, is signed by the translator, Louis Conart, Jesuit.

Gregorio López was a wandering hermit, born in Spain, who left for the New World in 1562. The author and the hermit both lived near the village of Santa Fe. Although López never became a saint, he was accorded the title “venerable”, a distinction rarely given by the church to figures from the Spanish colonies.

Signatures: ã¹² (ã1 verso blank) A-L¹² (B12 missigned B; E8 missigned E3)

Woodcut printer's ornament on title page; head and tail pieces; initials.

Streit, R. Bibliotheca missionum, II:1728.

Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus, II: col. 1363-1364, no. 1.

Medina, J.T. Biblioteca hispano-americana (1493-1810), 624n.

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, II:318.

European Americana 644/100.

John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: wanting p. [23-24], 1st count.

John Carter Brown Library copy has illegible contemporary ms. notes on title page.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in 19th century full calf.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: H.T. [i.e. Henri Ternaux-Compans]: gold-tooled stamp on front and rear boards.