Augustín de Vetancurt
Encyclopedia
Augustín de Vetancurt, also written Vetancourt, Betancourt, Betancur (1620–1700) was a Mexican
Catholic
historian
and scholar of the Nahuatl language.
Mexico
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Catholic
Catholicism
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historian
Historian
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and scholar of the Nahuatl language.
Works
- 1673: Arte de lengua mexicana. [6], 49 [i.e. 50], [8] leaves. En Mexico: Por Francisco Rodriguez Lupercio. Referenced by: JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, III : 267; Sabin, 99385; Palau y Dulcet (2nd ed.), 36120; Medina, J. T. México, 1103; Viñaza, C. Lenguas indígenas, 204
- 1697: Teatro Mexicano: Crónica de la Provincia del Santo Evangelio de México, Menologio Franciscano. 5 pt. Mexico: por Dona Maria de Benavides Viuda de Ivan de Ribera, 1697-98
- Teatro Mexicano: descripción breve de los sucesos ejemplares de la Nueva-España en el Nuevo Mundo Occidental de las Indias. 4 vols. Madrid: J. Porrúa Turanzas, 1960 (Contents: 1. Sucessos naturales. Sucessos políticos.--2. De los sucessos militares de las armas. Tratado de la ciudad de México. Tratado de la ciudad de Puebla.--3. Chronica de la Provincia del Santo Evangelico.--4. Menologio franciscano de los varones más señalados, que con sus vidas exemplares ilustraron la Provencia de el Santo Evangelio de México.)
- Teatro Mexicano: descripción breve de los sucesos ejemplares, históricos y religiosos del Nuevo Mundo de las Indias. Crónica de la Provincia del Santo Evangelio de México. Menologio franciscano de los varones más señalados, que con sus vidas ejemplares, perfección religiosa, ciencia, predicación evangélica en su vida, ilustraron la Provincia del Santo Evangelio de México. México: Editorial Porrúa, 1971.