Title
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,
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Materia medica, Vegetable
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Medicine
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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
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