Doctrinalis fidei in Mechuacanensium indorum lingua: /
aeditus ab admodum reuerendo patre fratre Ioanne Metinensi, Bethico, Augustiniani ordinis, & priore conuentus Ciusensis. Tomus primus. Ad illustrissimum et reuerendissimum D. dominum fratrem Ioannem à Medina Rinconeum Michuacanensum Episcopum, eisude[m] instituti. Accessere sermones quattuor. Scilicet in festo sancti Ioannis Baptista in festiuitate apostolorum Petri & Pauli. In festo magni patria Augustini Ecclesia doctoris. In festo sancti Fra[n]cisci ordinis fundatore..
Description
- Language(s)
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Central American Indian (Other)
- Published
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Mexici. : Cum licencia, in aedibus Antonij Ricardi typographi. Via apostoloru[m] Petri & Pauli., Anno. 1577. [i.e. 1578]
- Note
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Volume two of this work is only known as printed in 1575.
Part one contains sermons, with commentaries in the form of dialogs, on the articles of faith. Part two contains sermons and dialogs on the sacraments (in general and considered separately), and sermons for the feasts of John the Baptist, the Apostles Peter and Paul, Augustine of Hippo, and Francis of Assisi. Second part has separate register, new pagination, and caption title: "Sermo. De Septem Ecclesiae sacramentis."
"Tabula" on leaves [1-2] at end.
Decorated and historiated capitals, tail-pieces, episcopal shield on title page, woodcut illustration on leaf 41 (second series).
Foliation errors in 1st series: leaf 24 lacks number; 42 misprinted as 47. In 2nd series: leaves 25, 31, 38, 41 lack numbers; 26, 43, 45 and 48 misprinted as 31, 46, 44 and 43 respectively.
Signatures: pi² [maltese cross]⁶ A-G⁸ H⁶(-H6) 2A-2I⁸ chi² (H5 verso is blank). Misprinting G2 as H2, Ee1 as Gg4, Gg4 as Gh4; Ff1 lacks signature.
Colophon: "Finitum est opus primi tomi Doctrinalis fidei ad laudem et gloriam omnipotentis Dei eius[que] sa[n]ctae matris virginis Mariae. Die. 17. mensis Februarij anno à Christo nato. 1578. In aedibus Antonij Ricardi in ciuitate Mexicana, iuxta aedes Apostoloru[m] Petri & Pauli. [maltese cross]."
Main text in Tarascan, with double columns of roman type.
Third book printed in Mexico by Antonio Ricardo.
On title page, "Del uso del P[adre] Pred[icado]r y cura fray Francisco Ponce de Leon"; additional ownership inscriptions on A1r (cropped when re-bound), G8r, 2A7r, 2C6r, 2I5 (cropped). Marca de fuego of the Convento de San Francisco de Valladolid on edge (obscured). Book stamp of J.F. Ramírez on title page. Forms part of the Hubert Howe Bancroft Collection (Linguistics, C, No. 32).
- Physical Description
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[8], 61, 72, [2] leaves :
illustrations ;
32 cm (folio)
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