Attributed to José Ximénez Samaniego by Palau.

"A los doctores, que leyeren esta historia. Fray Joseph Ximenez Samaniego, indigno frayle menor. Prologo galeato", p. 1-231, 2nd count.

The "Prologo galeato" was separately translated and printed in Italian in Trent in the same year.

First appeared in: Mystica ciudad de Dios, milagros de su omnipotencia y abismo de la gracia / by Sor María de Jesús de Agreda, first printed in Madrid, 1670, and included titles: "Relacion de la Vida de la Venerable Madre Sor Maria de Iesus", which also included "Notas a esta primera parte de la Historia de la Vida de la Madre de Dios, escrita por la venerable Madre Sor Maria de Iesus"

First printed separately under title: Relacion de la vida de la Venerable Madre Sor Maria de Jesus, Barcelona, 1687.

Includes an account of the conversion of the Indians of New Mexico, p. 81-96, 2nd count.

"Relacion de la vida de la Venerable Madre Sor Maria de Jesus, escritora de esta obra. Hazela Fr. Joseph Ximenez Samaniego, de la Orden de San Francisco:, p. 1-344, 4th count, has separate caption title.

Sor Maria de Jésus, de Agreda was a member of the Order of the Immaculate Conception, also known as Conceptionists. She wrote fourteen books, including a series of revelations about the life of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Her bilocation activity is said to have occurred between her cloistered monastery in rural Spain and the Jumano Indians of central New Mexico and West Texas, and inspired many Franciscan missionaries in the New World.

Signatures: pi1 (pi1 verso blank) A-O⁸ P⁴ (P4 verso blank); A-X⁸ (L2 missigned K2) Y⁴

Title page printed within ornamental border; head and tail pieces; initials.

An engraved portrait of Sor Maria de Jésus, de Agreda is bound between p. [1], 3rd count, and p. 1, 4th count.

Palau y Dulcet, A. Manual del librero hispano-americano (2. ed.), 3259.

Palau y Dulcet, A. Manual del librero hispano-americano (2. ed.), 377259.

European Americana 712/266.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full sheep.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Louis D. Sharpe Metcalf Fund.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy has a faded book stamp of a Capuchin convent in Madrid on verse of title page.