Date of publication printed between the name of the printer and the name of the bookseller on title page.

Date of 1648 on title page is erroneous; dedication, leaves [2] and [3] recto, 1st count, is dated: Madrid, y diziembre 8. de 1657; errata, leaf [6] verso, 1st count dated: Madrid 29. de nouiembre de 1657.

Revised and enlarged by Luis Muñoz of the edition first printed in Mexico, 1613 under title: La vida que hizo el siervo de Dios Gregorio Lopez.

Another edition printed by the Imprenta real in Madrid in the same year.

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 zvenerabley, a distinction rarely given by the church to figures from the Spanish colonies.

Signatures: [par.]⁸ ([par.]1 verso blank) A-O⁸ P⁴

Text printed in two parallel columns.

Errata: leaf [6] verso, 1st count.

Engraved armorial vignette on title page; head and tail pieces; initials.

Streit, R. Bibliotheca missionum, II:1807.

Palau y Dulcet, A. Manual del librero hispano-americano (2. ed.), 142526.

Medina, J.T. Biblioteca hispano-americana (1493-1810), 1120.

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, II:372-373.

European Americana 658/110.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full limp vellum with ties.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Thomas de Aguirrez: ms. autographs on verso of leaf [2], 3rd count.