The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 2: Acadia, 1612-1614
History
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 2: Acadia, 1612-1614
Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France); Indians of North America -- Canada; Jesuits -- Missions; Jesuits -- North America
O'Callaghan obtained the originals of some of his reprints from the
_Annuæ Litteræ Societatis Jesu_, of which there are incomplete files
in the libraries of John Carter Brown; Harvard College; St. John's,
College, Fordham, N. Y.; St. Francis Xavier, New York City; the Jesuit
colleges at Woodstock, Md., and Georgetown, D. C.; and St. Mary's
College, Montreal. The Brown Library has the richest collection.
See references to the O'Callaghan Reprint of _Missio Canadensis_, in
Harrisse's _Notes_, no. 405; Lenox Catalogue, p. 18; Sabin, vol. xvi.,
p. 542; Brown Catalogue, vol. ii., no. 119; Winsor, p. 300; Henry
C. Murphy Sale Catalogue (N. Y., 1884), no. 2960; O'Callaghan Sale
Catalogue (N. Y., 1882), nos. 178, 1205, 1250.
_Title-page._ O'Callaghan's Reprint is closely imitated.
_Collation of O'Callaghan Reprint._ Title, 1 p.; reverse of title,
with inscription: "Editio ad xxv exemplaria restricta. O'C.", 1 p.;
Lectori, pp. iii-iv.; text, pp. 5-37; blank, 1 p.; Index, pp. 39-45;
colophon (p. 46): "Albaniae Excvdebat Joel Munsellius | Mense Septembri
Anno | CIↃ.IↃCCC.LXX.," 1 p.
XI
The copy of Lescarbot's _Relation Dernière_ herein followed is in
Harvard College Library, where it is bound in with the same author's
_Les Muses de la Nouvelle France_ (Paris, 1612). The Harvard copy is
the only original of which the present editor has knowledge; it is not
listed in Gagnon's _Essai de Bibliographie Canadienne_ (Quebec, 1895),
but reference to it will be found in Harrisse, no. 26; Sabin, no.
40178; and Winsor, p. 300. There is a reprint of it in Cimber (Lafaist)
and Danjou's _Archives Curieuses de l'Histoire de France, depuis Louis
XI. jusqu'à Louis XVIII._, first series, tome xv. (Paris, 1837), pp.
377-406, which, however, omits the list of names on pp. 21-24 of the
original. The first series of this collection (15 vols.) was edited
by L. Lafaist ("L. Cimber," _pseud._) and F. Danjou, assistants in
the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; the second series (12 vols.), by
Danjou alone, who, on the title of tome viii. of this series, is styled
"Bibliothécaire de l'Arsenal." The 27 volumes were published at Paris
between 1834 and 1840.
The orthography of the printed original of the _Relation Dernière_ is
an interesting mixture of old and new styles. It has many instances of
modern spellings not found even in the Cramoisy _Relation_ of 1632,
which was printed twenty years later.
It will be noticed that the "Privilege" is that granted for the
publication of Lescarbot's _Histoire de la Nouvelle France_ (1608).
_Title-page._ The one given in the present volume is a photographic
facsimile of the Harvard original.
_Collation._ Title, 1 p.; blank, reverse of title, 1 p.; text, pp.
3-39; privilege, reverse of p. 39, 1 p.--making a total of 40 pp.
XII
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