PARAUD — FERNANDEZ. 945 
Feria {Fr. Pedro de) — coutimied. 
printed, according to Remesal (if this author does say so, I have been unable 
to find the passage). 2. Vocabulario mas copioso de la misma lengna, in manu- 
script. 3. Doctrina ciistiana en elbi, printed in Mexico according to Davila in 
the Historia de Mexico, I'ol. 672." This last reference is incorrect; the passage 
is on p. 594 of the edition of 1.59(5, and on p. 479 of the edition of lG2,'j. Bt-ris- 
tain, besides the Doctrina, which he says plainly that he had seen in the library 
of the Colegio de S. Gregorio (but which I have not found there), attributes to 
P. Feria the " Confesoiiario, printed, according to Remesal" (a notice which 
seems to be taken from Pinolo-Barcia), and the Vocabulario (without saying 
■whether it was printed or in manuscript). 
It appears from all this, that Davila Padilla gave the names of Doctrina and 
Coiifesonario to the same work, Trhich is not strange, as they were generally in- 
cluded in one volume ; and that there is no reason to doul^t the existence of the 
Arte and Vocabulario, based on the authority of Remesal. At all events, no 
other writings of P. Feria in this tongue now remain, except the very rare Doc- 
trina Zapoteca, of which no copy is known in Mexico. — Icazbalceta, Bibliografin 
Mexicana del Siglo XVJ, pp. 141-144. 
See [Cordoba {Fr. Juan)J, No. 889, note. 
Fernand-Michel (Fran§ois Fortune). See Faraud (Mgr. Henry), 
No. 1266 rt. 
1280 Fernandez (Fr. Benito). [Doctrina en lengna Mixteca. Mexico, 
1568J. 
Fr. Benito Fernandez was sent to the Misteco mission about the year 1548, 
where he had charge of the pueblos of Tlaxiaeo and Achiutla. He acquired 
their language perfectly in a short time, and remained among them until his 
death, the year of which is unknown. 
The two editions of the Doctrina, printed in 1567 and 1568, are now in the 
library of the Sociedad de Geografia y Estadistica at Mexico, and are sujiposed 
to be unique. Two earlier editions, dated 1550 and 1564, have been mentioned 
by bibliographers, but no copy of either has been found, and it is very doubtful 
whether the latter, which rests solely on the authority of Barcia, was ever 
printed. It is also worthy of note that neither of the two known editions con- 
tains any reference to a previous one, although it was the custom, in such cases, 
to add the words agora nuevamenle impresa, or something to that eft'ect. The 
earliest writer who speaks of this Doctrina is Drtvila Padilla, who says that it 
"was printed in Mexico in 1.550." Another dominicjin, Fr. Alonzo Fernandez, 
gives the same date. P. Burgoa, who was well acquainted with the Mistecos 
and their language, writing in 1670, speaks of it as having been printed for 120 
years. Antonio de Leon (Pinelo) has only this brief notice: "Fr. Benito Fer- 
nandez, domiuioan. Doctrina, Epistolas y Evaugelios en lengua niisteca, 
printed." Ho gives no date, but in these few lines we meet with the first and 
only original notice of the Epistolas and Evaugelios. Barcia, in his reprint of 
Pinelo, adds the dates: "printed 1.550, 4°; 1564, 4°; 1.568, 4°." Nicolas Antonio 
mentions only the edition of 1568. Quetif and Echard, quoting from. Davila 
Padilla and Pinelo, give the Doctrina of 1550, and the "Epistolaruni ci Evan- 
geliorura ver.sio," to which they add the date of 1.568. Eguiara gives the 
date as follows: "Mexici, ex typographia Petri de Ocharte, 1568, in quarto," 
and briefly refers to the editions of 1550 and 1564, which he ."ays that he h;id 
never seen. Alcedo cites an edition of 1586, which is probably'im error for L'lO''. 
Bcristain says that it was "i)rinted in Mexico, by Pedro Ocharte, 1.56S, and pre- 
viously in 1550, and 1564, in 4°." Ternaux mentions the editions of 1550 and 
1568. The domiuican Fr. Antonio de los Reyes, In his Arte en Lengua Mioteca, 
60 Bib. 
