In Spanish and Latin.

Remainder of title: Cuya alegorica translacion celebraron los ingenios zacatecanos, en el festivo poetico certamen, que â expensas de la lealtad del conde de Santiago de la Laguna, coronel de infanteria española, D. Joseph de Vrquiola, se celebrò en dicha ciudad dia 27. de septiembre delaño de 1722. Con la descripcion del obelisco, que se le eriguió â el señor don Lvis I. (que Dios goza) en su real coronacion el año de 1724.

Title, statement of responsibility, and imprint from Medina. Medina apparently took date of publication from p. [7], 1st count: Zacatecas, y julio 31 de 1727.

Authorship attributed to José de Aguirre y Villar by Medina, and to José de Rivera Bernardez by Palau y Dulcet. Inasmuch as almost all of the text consists of "Introduccion que haze el Secretrio del Certamen" (p. 17-113), whose name is given as Joseph de Aguirre Villar on p. 11, Medina is correct.

The copy held by Indiana University may be a variant. According to OCLC, the first five words of its title read: Estatua de la paz antiguamemte [sic]

Signatures: pi⁴ A-F⁴ ²F-P⁴

Includes: Obeliscus zacatecanus. Sive elogium hieroglyphicum ... / A D. Josepho Rivera Bernardez, Comite Sancti Jacobi de Palude, & peditum quingentoru duce. (p. 114-128, 2nd count)

Medina, J.T. México, 2906.

Palau y Dulcet (2. ed.) 270273.

Provenance of John Carter Brown Library copy: Nicolás León: acquisition record.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary vellum with cord fasteners; lack t.p., 6 p. of preliminaries, and plate, that apparently had been bound between p. 120 and 121, illustrating the obelisk. Has book brand on top edge.