The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 7: Quebec, Hurons, Cape Breton, 1634-1635
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The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 7: Quebec, Hurons, Cape Breton, 1634-1635
Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France); Indians of North America -- Canada; Jesuits -- Missions; Jesuits -- North America
For the text of this document, we have had recourse to a copy in the
Lenox Library.
_Collation:_ Title, with verso blank, 1 l.; "Table des Chapitres," pp.
(2); Relation signed by Le Jeune and eighteen of his confrères, pp.
1-112; Brébeuf's Huron Relation, pp. 113-206; Perrault's Relation of
Cape Breton, pp. 207-219; "Divers Sentimens," pp. 220-246; "Extraict du
Priuilege du Roy," with the "Approbation" on the verso, 1 l. There is
no misnumeration.
The (civil) Privilege for this volume is dated January 12, 1636, and
the (ecclesiastical) Approbation January 15, 1635. This apparent
discrepancy arises from difference in the calendar: the civil
authorities were using the present calendar; whereas the officers of
the church were still clinging to the old ecclesiastical year, which
began in March. The Approbation of the Jesuit provincial was granted
three days after the granting of the royal Privilege.
Another edition of this _Relation_ appears in the octavo volume
published at Avignon, also in 1636, and containing the _Relations_
for 1634 and 1635 conjunctively. The volume is described in the
Bibliographical Data for document XXIII., in Volume VI., p. 321, of the
present series.
There are at least two issues of the Paris edition. We note the
following differences:
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FIRST ISSUE. |SECOND ISSUE.
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P. 82, reads: _Miriuan |P. 82, reads. _Mirinan oukachigakhi
oukachigakhi nimitchiminon._ |nimitchiminan_.
|
P. 90, reads: On l'appelle Rat |P. 90, reads: On l'appelle Rat
musqué, pource qu'en effect les |musqué, pource qu'en effect vne
testicules pris au Printemps |partie de son corps prise au
sentent le musc, en autre temps |Printemps sent le musc, en autre
ils n'ont point d'odeur. |temps elle n'a point d'odeur.
|
P. 91, the first paragraph ends |P. 91, the first paragraph ends
with: "coste de l'Acadie." |with: "coste de l'Acadie à Mr le
|Com. de Razilly."
The Avignon edition follows the wording of the first Paris issue,
though it deviates somewhat in the matter of paragraphing; _cf._,
_e.g._, pp. 127 and 199 of the Paris edition with pp. 345 (mispaged
245) and 388 of the Avignon edition.
The Quebec reprint (1858) follows the text of the second Paris issue.
The only copy of the Avignon edition, known to us, is in the Lenox
Library. Copies of the Paris edition are in the following libraries:
Lenox (two issues), Harvard, Riggs (Georgetown University), Brown,
British Museum, and Bibliothèque Nationale. Copies have been sold or
priced as follows: Leclerq (1878), no. 778, 140 francs; O'Callaghan
(1882), no. 1214, $35--it had cost him $32.50 in gold; Barlow (1889),
no. 1275, $12.50; Dufossé, of Paris, priced (1891-1893) at 300 and 400
francs.
NOTES TO VOL. VII
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