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Genealogías del Nuevo Reyno de Granada. Book I, Volume III
by Juan Flórez de Ocáriz and Enrique Ortega Ricaurte
Review by: Orlando Fals-Borda
Source: The Americas, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Oct., 1957), pp. 209-210
Published by: Cambridge University Press
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 BOOK REVIEWS 209

Bibliograf{a Cubana 1954. By Fermin Peraza Sarausa. [Anuario Bibliogra-

fico Cubano 18.] (Habana, 1955. Pp. 178.)
Bibliografza Cubana 1955. By Fermin Peraza Sarausa. [Anuario Bibliogra-
fico Cubano 19.] ( Habana, 1956. Pp. 171) .

With the appearance of Bibliografga Cubana for 1954 and 1955, Dr. Fermin
Peraza has presented the eighteenth and nineteenth volumes of this im-
portant contribution to the cultural life of Cuba. As their predecessors
they record the literary activity of Cuba in all its phases. The author
carries on his work so that the volumes reach scholars early in the year fol-
lowing their date. The plan pursued for some years consists of giving first
the entries alphabetically by authors and then by subjects. In the first
list the full bibliographical data is entered, with notes as to content and
importance. This latter information is omitted in the subject listing. In
view of the early publication, some items are not available, so there is a
section including titles for previous years, especially the preceding one, with
the entries alphabetical by author. For the year 1954, there are 511 entries,
with 295 additional entries in the supplement for 1937-1953; and for the
year 1955, there are 615 entries, with 212 in the supplement.
There is an analytical index for each volume. Dr. Peraza continues to
render great service to Cuban bibliography and is to be congratulated for
the excellent and effective manner in which he presents to scholars the
results of his labors.
ROSCOE R. HILL
Washingtoxl, D. C.

Genealogias del Nuevo Reyno de Granada. Book I, Volume III. By Juars

Florez de Ocariz. Edited by Enrique Ortega Ricaurte with the assist-
ance of Carlota Bustos Losada. [Publicacion del Archivo Nacional de
Colombia.] (Bogota: Editorial Kelly, 1955. PP. 290. Illus., index.)

The second edition of Ocariz' monumental work on men and sites in the
New Kingdom of Granada has now completed the Preface to Book I. First
printed in Madrid by Jose Fernandez de Buendia in 1674, the Genealogias
have been under the present editorship since 1943 when Volume I appeared,
followed in 1944 by Volume II. Enrique Ortega Ricaurte, director of the
Archivo Nacional, with the able assistance of Carlota Bustos and Ana Rueda,
has thus served Americanists with a new and careful rendition of the
Barramedan's rare book. This has meant a time-consuming perusal of the
few (and often unreadable) original copies of the 1674 edition available in
Bogota.

Volume III follows the general lines of the previous tomes, including Dr.
Ortega's version of hijodcllgos' coats of arms. Various heretofore unpub-
lished documents from the Archivo form an interesting appendix: a royal

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210 BOOK REVIEBTS

capitulacion with Lope de Orozco for the new settlement of the Santa
Marta province (1576), the will of Juan Clemente de Chaves, once governor
of Antioquia and Zaragoza (1628), and new material in regard to a street
fight between Ocariz and his brother-in-law. The book, however, does not
have the amount nor the quality of the notes that Dr. Ortega generously
furnished in his two previous ventures.

In the first part of Book I, Ocariz deals extensively with forty-seven of

the conquerors that accompanied Quesada and Juan Fernandez de Lugo,
giving details of their ancestors and descendants as well as descriptions of
their encomiendas and other possessions. This is the most valued section
of his book, for the nesvs about the conquest and settlement of the area that
it brings. In the latter part of the Preface to Book I, contained in the
present volume, Ocariz writes about many noted members of religious
orders residing in the New Kingdom, as well as about the governors and
prominent citiezns of Santa Marta, Popayan, Cartagena, Antioquia, Tunja,
Santafe, and other cities. In all, about one hundred and fifty names are cited
-an eloquent example of Ocariz' tireless research in the nosr half-forgotten
science of family trees and abolengos.

We should now look forward to the completion of the project, with the
publication of the rest of Book I as well as of Book II, both of which contain
the bulk of the genealogies. And, of course, it will be a real contribution
if the Archivo succeeds in publishing Book III, now only in manuscript
form in the hands of Ocariz' descendants in Bogota.

ORLANDO FALs-BoRDA
Bogota, Colombia

Medieval American Art. Masterpieces of the New World before Columbus.

By Pal Kelemen. (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1956. Pp.
xxii, 414. 100 plates. $15.00.)

This new edition of the work first published in 1943 conveniently pre-
sents the text and illustrations in one volume. The contents are identical
with the two earlier editions. After fourteen years this remains the most
complete general survey of pre-Columbian art in America. This, no more
nor less, is the intention of the writer. He does not pretend to be an
archeologist or a historian. From them he collects facts, but the descrip-
tion of the masterpieces is regularly based on the proper direct observation
of the objects, pointing out the figure, material, design, color, drawing, etc.
apart from theories on artistic dependence, to which he dedicates only the
article entitled "Evolution or influence" (pp. 370-381). The same must be
said of philosophical considerations that could have their proper place in a
history of American pre-Columbian art.

To offer a complete descriptive index of the most characteristic and

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