Chronica de la santa provincia de San Diego de Mexico, de religiosos descalços de N.S.P.S. Francisco en la Nueva-España
Subtitle: Vidas de ilvstres, y venerables varones, que la han edificado con excelentes virtudes.
By: Escrivelas, y consagralas al glorioso San Diego de Alcalá, patron, y tutelar de la misma provincia F. Balthassar de Medina.
Series: Western Americana, 1550-1900 -- reel 364, no. 3538.
Publisher: J. de Ribera
Published: 1682
Place of publication: Mexico
Language: spa
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: Franciscans -- Mexico.; Mexico -- History -- Spanish colony, 1540-1810.
Notes: Added t.-p., engraved.

The map, "Nova delineatio srictissimae S. Didaci provinciae in Nova Hispania. Provincia d. S. Diego de Mexico ... Auctor inuenit Antonius Ysartii excud. Mexici. 1682", is "the earliest specimen of copper-plate engraving done in Mexico".--Sabin, Bibl. amer., v. 11, p. 556. cf. also Brasseur de Bourbourg, Bibl. mexico-guatémalienne, p. 97-98.

Fully described in Medina, J.T. La impotenta en Mexico (1539-1821) Santiago de Chile, 1907- t. 2, p. 543-544, no. 1250; and in Wagner, H.R. The Spanish Southwest, 1542-1794. Berkeley, 1924, p. 138, no. 55.

Microfilm. New Haven, Conn. : Research Publications, 1975. 1 reel. 35 mm. (Western Americana ; Reel 364, no. 3538)