Note 871 — Chapter III

This is true of Acosta and Davila Padilla. The bibliography of Acosta has been given elsewhere (Vol. II. p. 420). His books v., vi., and vii. cover the ancient history of the country. He used the MSS. of Duran (Brasseur, Bibl. Mex.-Guat., p. 2), and his correspondence with Tobar, preserved in the Lenox library, has been edited by Icazbalceta in his Don Fray Zumárraga (Mexico, 1881). Of the Provincia de Santiago and the Varia historia of Davila Padilla, the bibliography has been told in another place. (Cf. Vol. II. pp. 399-400[; Sabin, v. 18780-1; Brasseur de Bourbourg’s Bibl. Mex.-Guat., p. 53; Del Monte Library, no. 126.) Ternaux was not wrong in ascribing great value to the books.]