LIST OF AUTHORITIES. XXVII 
Icazbalceta (Joaquin Garcia) — coutinned. 
"This catalogue is divided into two parts. The first comprises the hooks of my 
own collection, the second the hooks seen by me in various libraries, public and 
private, save three or four of which I have obtained descriptions which seem trust- 
worthy. There is no good reason for making this division, and it will be an ad- 
vantage to unite the two jiarts in one alphabetic list; but as the printing went on 
slowly, being done by myself at odd moments, I began with my own books, and 
thus gained time to augment the second part. « » * 
"I have made it a rule to copy the wliole of the title-pages. Though it seems 
at first unnecessary to give in their entirety the titles of honor and position of the 
authors and of those to whom the books were dedicated, I did not want to omit 
them, because they are usually the ouly data which we have for the biography of 
these persons. In the books of the IKth century I have also copied the colophon, 
which usually tells us more than the title. The merit of this sort of work lying 
especially in accuracy, I have preserved with extreme rigor the orthography of the 
originals, and even abbreviations not now in use; for this purpose I have had 
special types cast. » * « 
"This catalogue, though so incomplete, will, I hope, be of some use in bringing 
into notice some books hitherto unknown, and in confirming or correcting the 
descriptions of others. Looking at its small compass we feel great regret in con- 
sidering how small are the remains of the immense work done by the missionaries. 
Whatsoever may yet be discovered, it will be but a mite in comparison to what 
has been lost. There is hardly one language of America that did not have its 
grammar and its dictionary, and of some there were many dictionaries as well as a 
large number of primers, catechisms, explanations of christian doctrine, confession- 
books, collections of sermous, ascetic and moral treatises, and translations of script- 
ure. I do not even speak of the historic accounts written by natives in their own 
languages, of which only a few sad fragments remain. What was written In Aztec 
would alone form a small library. 
"I pursue my researches, and if I am not mistaken in my expectations of the 
help of lovers of science, I hope we shall one day possess a 'Library of writers in 
the vernacular tongues of Mexico,' tlie first contribution to which these Apuntes 
will have been." — Preface. 
The list of books given in the above work was partially reprinted (134 titles), with 
titles conoiderably abridged, on pp. 424-431 of: Polemica entre elDiario Oficial y la 
Colonia Espanola, &c. Mexico, 1875. 8°. (.JWP.) 
Don Fray | Juan de Zum4rraga | Primer Obispo y Arzobispo de 
Mex'co I Estudio Biografico y Bibliograflco | por | Joaquin Garcia 
Icazbalceta | Secretario f&c, 4 lines] | Con un Apendice de Docu- 
mentos | iueditos 6 raros. | Tomo Primero [-Segundo] | [Device] 
Mexico I Antigua Libreria de A.ndrade y Morales, | Portal de Agus- 
tinos N". 3. I 1881 | jwP. 
2 vols. : 1 p. 1., title 1 1., advertencia 1 1., pp. 1-371 ; 1 p. 1., title 1 1., 1 other p. 
]., pp. 1-270, i-viii. 8°. 
Bibliografia Blexicana | del Siglo XVI. | Parte Primera. | JCP. 
Royal 8"^. In press. Of this work, the title-page and preliminary leaves of 
which have not yet been printed, the author has sent mo advance sheets of pp. 1- 
240; these contain an account of all works published in Mexico from 1.539 to 1582, 
with biographic and bibliographic notes. Manyfae similes of title-pages and colo- 
phons are given, and a number of the former by permission of the author have 
been reproduced for this catalogue and appear herein. 
Jtilg (B.) See Vater (Jobann Severin). 
