Sunday, August 26, 2018

Compendio y Descripción de las Indias Occidentales


Vázquez de Espinosa, Antonio, Compendio y descripción de las Indias Occidentales, Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1948.

Texto disponible en línea.

Reseñado en Academy of American Franciscan History 1951.

Reseñado en Nature volume 163, page 467 (26 March 1949).

Fray Antonio Vazquez de Espinosa (born in Jerez de la Frontera and died Seville, 1630) was a Spanish friar of the Discalced Carmelites originally from Jerez de la Frontera whose Compendio y Descripcion de las Indias Occidentales has become a source of detail for the history of South America, since the manuscript's discovery in the Vatican Library in 1929.

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