Breuissima relacion de la destruycion de las Indias

Creator

Eguiguren, Francisco Antonio de Casas, Bartolomé de las Ternaux-Compans, Henri

Place

Fue impressa la presente obra enla muy noble & muy leal ciudad de Seuilla

Publisher

En casa de Sebastian Trugillo impressor de libros. A nuestra señora de Gracia

Date

año de M.D.Lij. [1552]

Notes

Reprinted in photofacsimile and modern typeface, including the "Lo que se sigue ..." on facing pages in: Tratados de fray Bartolomé de las Casas (México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1965), v. 1, p. [2]-215

Signatures: a-e⁸ f¹ g⁴ (f10 verso blank) (horizontal chain lines)

Title page vignette: Spanish coat of arms

The "Brevissima relacion de la destruycion de las Indias" together with the other seven treatises by Las Casas printed in Seville between 1552 and 1553, eight if the "Lo que se sigue ..." is considered as a separate as it sometimes is, were issued as separates and upon completion of printing, apparently also as a set. They are not always found bound together in the same order nor necessarily in the order in which they were printed, however. Cf. Church, E.D. Discovery, 87-96

Title and coat of arms within woodcut border

Title page printed in red and black

Imprint from colophon

Virgule in title replaced by a comma

Includes "Lo que se sigue es vn pedaço de vna carta y relacion que escriuio cierto hombre" (leaves g1-g4), bibliographically an integral part of the "Brevísima relación." Not authored by Las Casas, however

Local notes

John Carter Brown Library copy has contemporary notes in ms. in margins. Portions of some notes lost through excessive trimming

John Carter Brown Library copy bound with: (2) Aqui se contiene vna disputa, o controversia / Bartolomé de las Casas (Seville, 1552); (3) Aqui se co[n]tiene[n] treyta proposiciones muy juridicas / Bartolomé de las Casas (Seville, 1552); (4) Este es vn tratado ... / Bartolomé de las Casas (Seville, 1552); (5) Entre los remedios ... / Bartolomé de las Casas (Seville, 1552); (6) Aqui se co[n]tiene[n] vnos autos y reglas para los confessores / Bartolomé de las Casas (Seville, 1552); (7) Tratado co[m]probatorio del imperio soberano y principado vniuersal ... / Bartolomé de las Casas (Seville, 1552); (8) Principia queda[m] ex quibus procendendum est in disputatione ad manifestandam et defendendam iusticiam Yndorum / Bartolomé de las Casas (Seville, 1552?); and in ms.: (9) Resolucion, y declaracion, a. 12 dudas. / Por don fray Bartholome de las Casas ... (s.l., [16th cent.]); (10) Singularis tractatus / Reuerenntissimi Domini D.F. Bartholomei a Casaus ... (s.l., [16th cent.]); (11) El Illmo. y Rmo. señor don Ger[oni]mo de Loaisa primer arcobispo de los Reyes ... (s.l., [155-]); (12) Prophecias antiguas (s.l., [16th cent.]); (13) Apologia Ioanis Genesii Sepuluedae / Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda (s.l., [16th cent.])

John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: pages [9-12] misbound following page [4]

Provenance of John Carter Brown Library copy: Henri Ternaux Compans: binding stamp on covers; Este libro es de D[o]n Fran[cis]co Ant[oni]o de Eguiguren: inscription on leaf [2] verso of Prophecias antiguas