THE VIRGIN OF GUADALUPE
THE VIRGIN OF GUADALUPE
In
PRAISE of the
Virgin
of Guadalupe
(A
REALLY Important & Rare Book)! Lopez de Abiles, Joseph [a.k.a.,
José López de Aviles]. Veridicum ad modum anagramma, epigramma
obsequiosum, unaque cum acrostichide virgilio centunculus rigorosus in laudem
purissimae immaculataeque conceptionis sanctissimae virginis dei-genitricis Mariae....
Mexici: ex typographia vidue Bernardi Calderon, 1669. Folio (30 cm; 11.75"). [17of
19] ff., lacking half-title and plate.
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This
ambitiously designed production is from the press of one of Mexico's famous
17th-century woman printers, the Widow Calderón.
The work ends with a short essay addressed to López de Abiles by Lic. Miguel Sánchez and with anagrams by him as well. Sánchez was the author of Imagen de la Virgen Maria madre de dios de Guadalupe, milagrosamente aparecida en la ciudad de Mexico that had appeared in 1648. As a researcher with considerable knowledge of the Virgin of Guadalupe, he praises López de Abiles in no uncertain terms.
For some unfathomable reason Medina lists this under the extensive half-title — Poeticum viridarium in honorem, laudationem, et obsequium purae admodum ... Mariae: eiusdem dominae miraculosae Mexiceae imaginis de Guadalupe.... — and the cataloguer at the University of Arizona has blindly followed Medina down that road so that the WorldCat record is not findable via the real title.
Rarity: WorldCat locates only one copy worldwide but we know of two others. No additional copies were located via COPAC, Catálogo Colectivo del Patrimonio Bibliográfico, Metabase, or the OPACs of the Spanish National Library, the Mexican National Library, and the British Library.
• Medina, Mexico, 1016; Andrade 582; Grajales & Burrus, Bibliografia guadalupana, 82. In later wrappers, a little tattered at the spine. Lacks the half-title and the plate. Top margins of last 10 leaves rodent-gnawed with loss of paper but not of text, although a few letters are touched and the headline words “Segundum Anagramma” lost to that animal. Some light staining, front and rear. In all, a good if damaged copy of an important rarity. (26413)
Printed
by Hogal —
Illustrated
with Four
Woodcuts
Aranda Novés, Gerardo. Maria Santissima, refugio de
pecadores, idea de justos, iman del la christiana devocion. Libro unico. Dividido en tres partes,
conforme a las tres vias de la vida espiritual, purgativa, iluminativa, y unitiva, en el qual con
afectos tiernos, y encendidos trata la alma con la madre de misericordia del gran negocio de su
salvacion. Mexico: por Joseph Bernardo de Hogal, 1726. 8vo (15 cm; 6"). [4] ff., 341 pp. (blank
verso of p. 265 omitted in numbering), [2] ff., 1 plt.
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An
uncommon work of mariology; in the U.S. only the New York Public Library reports
owning a copy.
• Medina, Mexico, 2844. Contemporary vellum over light boards, with the ties. Top and bottom edges of the closed volume with inked ownership of an unidentified conventual library. Clean copy. (26872)
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Nahuatl Instruction Manual — A Nahuatl Sermon onthe Virgin of Guadalupe Paredes, Ignacio de. Promptuario manual mexicano. Mexico: Impr. de la Bibliotheca Mexicana, 1759. Small 4to (20.5 cm; 8"). [22] ff., 378 (of 380), 90 pp., lacks the engr. frontis., and one text leaf.
Click the images for enlargements. At the end, in Nahuatl, is a sermon on the Virgin of Guadalupe incorporating the history of Her apparition.
The detailed title-page and beautiful full-page woodcut coat of arms are present. The printer has also employed various handsome woodcut head- and tailpieces at different points in the text.
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