Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [Title page]

Accession number: 
12139
Record number: 
12139-2
JCB call number: 
BA649 L347h
Image title: 
[Title page]
Place image published: 
Mexico
Image publisher: 
Juan Ruyz
Image date: 
1649
Image function: 
title page
Technique: 
woodcut
Image dimension height: 
9.6 cm.
Image dimension width: 
7.6 cm.
Page dimension height: 
20.1 cm.
Page dimension width: 
13.3 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Languages: 
Spanish
Description: 
An image of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
Source creator: 
Lasso de la Vega, Luis, 17th cent.
Source Title: 
Huei Tlamahuiçoltica omonexiti in ilhvicac tlatóca çihvapilli Santa Maria Totlaçonantzin Guadalupe ...
Source place of publication: 
Impresso con licencia en Mexico
Source publisher: 
en la Imprenta de Iuan Ruyz
Source date: 
1649
notes: 
A vision of the Virgin of Guadalupe, with native American features, appeared to Juan Diego, a native American, on a hill named Tepeyac near the site of a temple to the Aztec goddess Tonantzin (Mother of the People) in 1531. Bishop Zumárraga accepted the truth of the vision when Juan Diego presented his cloak, or tilma, with the Virgin's image on it filled with out-of-season roses. This book, written in Nahuatl by the vicar of the chapel of Guadalupe, is the second known retelling of the Guadalupe story. The first was written in 1648 by Lasso de la Vega's friend, the priest, Miguel Sanchez. According to Medina, this account was probably written by a native Mexican, Antonio Valeriano, and edited, with a preface by Lasso de la Vega.
Time Period: 
1601-1650
References: 
Brading, D.A. Mexican Phoenix, plate 35
Provenance/Donor: 
Acquired in 1919.
Owner and copyright: 
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area: 
Spanish America
Subject Area: 
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area: 
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings: 
Guadalupe, Our Lady of