Inventory of the Mission San Antonio de Valero: 1772

Description

Editor/Translator: Leutenegger, Benedict  (1904-1985)

Publisher: Office of the State Archeologist, Texas Historical Commission

Pub Date: 1977

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Ex-library.  Stapled binding, upper staple starting to separate text block from cover, lower staple tight.  No tears, bends or folds.  First previous owner’s name in ink on upper corner title page.  Small tear (approx. 3/8″) with a fold along lower edge title page.  Library (second previous owner) bookplate on inside front cover.  Upper rear cover corner has an approx. 1″ crease.  Edge and corner wear.

Notes: 1772 Mission Inventories No. 1.  Office of the State Archeologist Special Report 23.  Bilingual, Spanish and English.  Two column format, Spanish in the left column, English in the right.  In 1772, four missions in San Antonio were transferred from one Mexican “diocese” to another, causing inventories of religious stuff to be transferred–church stuff (candles, hosts), vestments, tools, parish records, iconography, lists of parishioners (men, women, children, married, single), escapees (fugitives), farms and farm animals.