MexicoSánchez, Miguel,‏ -approximately 1615 (author)Benavides, Paula de (printer)García, Genaro, 1867 1920 (collector)1648“Imagen de la Virgen” is the first published narration of appearance of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Mexico. The central episode is the 1531 moment in which the image of the Virgin appears on Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin's tilma, or cloak, in the presence of Bishop Juan de Zumárraga. Sánchez, himself a devotee of the Virgin of Guadalupe, maintains that this image was not painted by human hands, but was the Virgin herself reflected in the cloak that Juan Diego had used to carry flowers from Tepeyac. By extension, the author maintains, it is the true image of Mary that hangs on the altar of the Basilica of Guadalupe. As the first published account of the Virgen of Guadalupe’s apparition, the impact of this baroque work was both immediate and lasting. It is written primarily in Spanish to make accessible to a wider audience, although numerous quotations from the Bible and other religious texts are in Latin.Originally part of the Genaro García Collection.utblac:c9be2023-2f1b-44f8-91b6-8c918d8e1168SpanishEn la imprenta de la Viuda de Bernardo Calderonhttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/Benson Rare Book Collection[224] pages; illustrations; 20 cm.Catholic ChurchGuadalupe, Our Lady ofShrinesImagen de la virgen Maria Madre de Dios de Gvadalvpe, milagrosamente aparecida en la civdad de Mexico. Celebrada en su historia, con la profecia del capitulo doze del apocalipsis.rare bookstextreligious materials