[XARQUE, Juan Antonio]. - Lot 294

[XARQUE, Juan Antonio]. Vida Prodigiosa, en lo Vario de los Secesos, Exemplar en lo Heroico de Religiosas virtudes, admirable en los fauores del Cielo, gloriosa en la Apostolico de sus empleos.... En Zaragoca, por Miguel de Luna, Impresor de la Ciudad y del Hospital Real, y General de N. S. de Gracia, 1662. In-4, (8) ff. (including title), 630 pp, (5) f. (index). Contemporary laced vellum, smooth spine, handwritten title (dampstaining to boards, some leaves browned, ink stains on p. 123, missing with damage to text on p. 381-2, minor marginal defects). Only edition, in its contemporary binding. No copy in the CCFr. Hagiographic biography of Father Antonio Ruiz de Montoya, attributed to Juan Antonio Xarque, who sometimes published under the name of his brother, Francisco Jarque. Consists of 16 preliminary pp. including a framed title page with fleurons in the spandrels and a large vignette with the Spanish royal coat of arms on the verso, a dedication by Jarque to King Philip IV, dated 1661 in Albarracín and an approval by Jarque's brother, Juan Antonio Jarque of the Society of Jesus, also dated 1661. Followed by the text, also framed by a double fillet and adorned with wood-engraved lettering and culs-de-lampe, intended to highlight Montoya's heroic and spititual virtues, his celestial favors and apostolic works... Montoya was a great specialist of the Guarani language, one of the languages of the Tupi-Guarani family spoken in Paraguay. Sabin, 105717. Angulo, Colonial Spanish Sources for Indian Ethnohistory, 274-275. Sommervogel, Anonymes et pseudonymes, 1035- 1036. Provenance: handwritten ex libris on title De la Biblioteca Episcopal de Córdoba with wet stamp in black ink.