Vida del siervo de Dios Gregorio Lopez

Title Variants

Uniform: Vida, que hizo el siervo de Dios Gregorio Lopez

By

Losa, Francisco de, 1536-1624

López, Gregorio, 1542-1596 , Tesoro de medicinas
López, Gregorio, 1542-1596 , Tratado del Apocalipsi

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

En Madrid, En la imprenta de Juan de Ariztia, Año de 1727

Edition

Quarta impression.

Notes

First printed under title: Vida, que hizo el siervo de Dios Gregorio Lopez in Mexico City, 1613.

The first edition printed in Spain appeared in Madrid in 1642.

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.

"Vida, que el siervo de Dios Gregorio Lopez hizo en algunos lugares de la Nueva España, y principalmente en el Pueblo de Santa Fe", p. 1-204, has separate caption title.

"Tratado del Apocalypsi, de Gregorio Lopez", p. 205-311, has separate caption title. This was first printed in: Vida, y escritos del venerable varon Gregorio Lopez / by Gregorio Lopez, first printed in Madrid, 1678, and is a commentary on the Book of Revelation.

"Libro de medicina por orden alphabetico, compuesto por el venerable siervo de Dios Gregorio Lopez", p. 329-441, has separate caption title, and is preceded on p. 313-328, by a prologue and an index of herbs and medications referred to in the text. This work was first printed under title: Tesoro de medicinas, para todas enfermedades, in Mexico, 1672.

Signatures: [par.]⁸ ([par.]1 verso blank) 2[par.]⁴ (2[par.]4 verso blank) A-2D⁸ (V4 verso blank) 2E⁴

Text printed in two parallel columns.

Title page printed within ornamental woodcut border; woodcut printer's vignette on title page; head and tail pieces; initials.

Includes an engraved frontispiece portrait of Gregorio Lopez.

Streit, R. Bibliotheca missionum, | III:247.

Catalogue of printed books in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library, | III, p. 548.

Palau y Dulcet, A. Manual del librero hispano-americano (2. ed.), | 142530.

Medina, J.T. Biblioteca hispano-americana (1493-1810), | 2619.

European Americana | 727/152.

Subjects

1542-1596 , Bible , Biography , Botany, Medical , Commentaries , Criticism, interpretation, etc , Hermits , Imprint 1727 , López, Gregorio, , Materia medica, Vegetable , Medicine , Mexico

BHL Collections

Publicaciones en Español

Language

Spanish

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.147205
Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q51420215