Finding Aid to the Memorial of Fray Alonso de Benavides Collection MS.1314
Library and Archives at the Autry
2013
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Library and Archives at the Autry
Title:
Memorial of Fray Alonso de Benavides Collection
Creator:
Bandelier, Frances R.
Identifier/Call Number: MS.1314
Physical Description:
0.25 Linear Feet
(1 box)
Date: before 1937
Abstract: This collection includes items related to the translation of the "Memorial of Father Alfonso de Benavides." The original version
of the Memorial was written in 1630.
Language of Material:
English
.
Processing of collection and publication of finding aid made possible by a grant from the National Historical Publications
and Records Commission (NHPRC).
Alonso de Benavides (Alonzo Benavidez) (c.1578-1635) was a Portuguese Franciscan missionary active in New Mexico in the early
part of the seventeenth century. His use of the term Navaho is said to be the first printed reference. He was born on Sao
Miguel Island, Azores. He came to "New Spain" in 1598, and professed in the Franciscan convent of Mexico in 1603. After acting
as master of novices at the convent of Puebla, he became Custos of the Missions of New Mexico, 1626-1629. He founded a mission
in 1627 at what is now Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico.
In order to raise interest in New Mexico he wrote and published two booklets, exaggerated in regard to the number of Native
Americans, but otherwise of value for the ethnography and ethnology of New Mexico. His account of the numbers of people and
villages may have been influenced by data taken from Espejo. He published "Relación de los grandes Tesoros espirituales y
temporales descubiertos con el auxilio de Dios en el Nuevo Mexico", in 1630, and is best known through the "Memorial que Fray
Juan de Santander de la orden de San Francisco &c. presenta á la Majestad Católica del Rey" (Madrid, 1630 translated into
various languages and republished).
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alonso_de_Benavides
Memorial of Fray Alonso de Benavides Collection, before 1937, Braun Research Library Collection, Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles; MS.1314.
One part of this collection was acquired for the Munk Librariy of Arizoniana, circa 1917. The rest of this collection donated
by Frederick Webb Hodge, 1937 and 1945 February.
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This collection includes items related to the translation of the "Memorial of Father Alfonso de Benavides." The original
version of the Memorial was written in 1630.
A translation was created in 1917 by a Mrs. Edward E. Ayer. This collection includes a review published in the
Catholic History Review, 1917 April, of Mrs. Ayer's translation. The collection also consists of a photostat copy of the "Revised Memorial of Fran
Alonso Benavides 1634," the original is in the archives of the Vatican, and a translation of the Memorial by Frances R. Bandelier
created in 1917. This translation was created from a copy of the original and made for Reverend Peter Guilday from the Catholic
University in Washington D.C.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Missions -- Southwest, New
Catholic History Review (magazine)
Indians of North America -- Southwest, New
Catholic Church -- Southwest, New
Photostats
Franciscans
Translations
Memorial of Fray Alonso de Benavides, 1630
Benavides, Alonso de