The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 6: Quebec, 1633-1634
History
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 6: Quebec, 1633-1634
Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France); Indians of North America -- Canada; Jesuits -- Missions; Jesuits -- North America
immortelles que vous auez à cette Prouidence qui à contribué autant
de perfections differentes pour vous rendre accomplis, qu'elle a
laissé de defauts dans les corps, & dans les esprits de nos pauures
Sauuages. Peutestre que le commerce qu'ils ont auec nos François
leur sera vne leçon ordinaire de cette humanité dont nous tenons
eschole ouuerte à toute l'Europe. Qui sçait si ces landes steriles
seront vn iour l'vne des_ [7] _belles parties du monde. Pourrions
nous bien desauoüer que ces belles Prouinces que nous habitōs
maintenant, & où les Nations estrangeres viennent faire l'amour
aux Graces, n'ayent esté autrefois la Nouuelle France? & les Peres
de ceux qui viennent estudier chez nous l'art de viure auec les
hommes, n'ont-ils pas fait passer nos ancestres pour des Barbares?
Que si nos Peres ont seulement adoré des Dieux d'or & de marbre,
nos Sauuages ne sont pas plus impies, pour estre superstitieux auec
moins de despense; & tousiours ils auront cet auantage qu'ils ne
perdront pas tant a brusler leurs Idoles. Que si_ [8] _vous agrées
(Messieurs) cete offre, ie redoubleray mes vœus & mes prieres
pour haster la conuersion de ces peuples afin que ma presse suë
plus souuent, & trauaille sur quelque ouurage plus grand ou vous
recognoistrez que ie suis._
_MESSIEVRS_,
Vostre tres-humble & tres obeissant seruiteur.
+IAQVES BRAMEREAV.+
The Avignon has one peculiarity which we have not seen noted elsewhere.
Signature F ends on p. 96 with the catch-word "Pour." In commencing
the next sheet, signature G, the printer begins with the word "Pour"
found near top of p. 130 of the Paris first issue; from that point, he
continues his type-setting, seemingly without discovering that he has
omitted the whole of the matter from line 4, p. 125, to line 3, p. 130
of the Paris first edition.
Harrisse's descriptions (nos. 60, 61, and 64) are entirely useless,
being in these titles very inaccurate. There are errors and omissions,
too, in Sabin, vol. xvi., p. 537, nos. iii. and iv. As the statements
of other catalogues and bibliographies are generally based on these,
we omit, in this case, to refer to them. Copies of the Paris editions
have been sold or priced as follows: Barlow (1889), no. 1274, $25.;
O'Callaghan (1882), no. 1215, first edition, $9.; no. 1213, second
edition, but called there first, $65.--it had cost him 68 francs; Moore
sale, pt. 2 (1894), no. 639, second edition, $10.; Dufossé, of Paris,
priced (1891 and 1892) at 150 francs; Harrassowitz, of Leipzig, priced
(1882) at 180 marks. Copies of the Paris editions, first or second,
may be found in the following libraries: Lenox (2 editions), Harvard,
Library of Parliament (Ottawa), Brown (private), British Museum, and
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
NOTES TO VOL. VI
(_Figures in parentheses, following number of note, refer to pages of
English text._)
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