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Relaciones de todas las cosas que en el Nuevo Mexico se han visto y sabido, asi por Mar como por tierra, desde el año de 1538 hasta el de 1676 i.e....

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Open book Relaciones de todas las cosas que en el Nuevo Mexico se han visto y sabido, asi por Mar como por tierra, desde el año de 1538 hasta el de 1676 i.e....

Title Relaciones de todas las cosas que en el Nuevo Mexico se han visto y sabido, asi por Mar como por tierra, desde el año de 1538 hasta el de 1676 i.e....

Creator Zárate Salmerón, Gerónimo

Date 1890-1905

Place California--Pacific Coast, Spain--Madrid

Language Spanish

Subjects Evangelistic work, Explorers, Franciscans, Indians of North America, Missionaries

Description Caption title.
At head of title: "Archivo General de Indias. Sevilla. Estante. Cajon. Legajo."
Leaf [1]: "Accounts of everything seen and learned in New Mexico, both by sea and land, from 1538 until 1676--By Padre Fray Geronimo de Garate y Salmeron, Preacher of the Order of the Minors of the province of the Santo Evangelio, directed to our most Reverend Padre Fray Fransisco de Apodaca, of the province of Cantabria, and Commissary-General of all the provinces of New Spain. Mss from the Biblioteca Nacional (National Library), Madrid."
Spine title: "Relaciones del Nuevo Mexico. 1538-1626."
Published in 1856 in Documentos para la historia de México, ser. 3, vol. 1 (pt. 2). English translation in Relaciones / by Zarate Salmeron ; transl. Alicia Ronstadt Milich. Albuquerque : Horn & Wallace, 1966.
Forms part of the Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)

Summary Hand-copied transcript, probably from around 1890-1905, of the Relaciones, accounts of the early history of New Mexico and California from 1538 to 1626, collected and compiled around 1627 or 1628 by the Franciscan missionary Father Gerónimo Zárate Salmerón. Zárate Salmerón includes not only information based on his first-hand experience in New Mexico from 1621 to 1626, but accounts from other people as well, no matter how speculative. He describes explorations of the Pacific coast of California in 1538, and Sebastian Vizcayno's 1596 voyage from Acapulco to Cape Mendocino. He also discusses Coronado's expedition of 1540 to discover the great mythical city of Quivira. Sections 33 through 57 present the occupation of New Mexico under the leadership of Juan de Oñate. Throughout the chronicle, there are descriptions of the landscape; the appearance, customs, and conversions of Indian tribes such as the Zuni, Navajo, Acoma and Picuri; and the animals, fish, and other resources of the region, such as pearls, garnets, mother-of-pearl, coral, and gold. Preliminary materials include the official "approval" by Fray Francisco de Velasco, dated Aug. 18, 1629 in the convent of San Francisco in Mexico City.

Extent [47] leaves, bound ; 35 cm

Format Transcripts

Archival Collection Title Edward E. Ayer Collection, Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Ayer MS 1273

BibID 128321

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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File Created 09/06/2023

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