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Catholic Church.

Manual mexicano, de la administracion de los santos sacramentos, conforme al Manual Toledano. Compuesto en lengua mexicana, por el bachiller Francisco de Lorra Baquio presbytero.

México: Diego Gutierrez, 1634

Physical Description: [8], 111, 111 [bis], 112-133, [2] leaves : ill. ; 15 cm. (8vo)

Call number: BA634/ C363m

Accession number: 3844

Notes: Most of text, including Prologue (leaves 1-4), alternates between Nahuatl and Spanish, with Spanish headings. Includes catechism in Nahuatl and Spanish (chapter 3, leaves 22v-32v). Chapter 15, “Annotaciones, y advertencias muy utiles, para saber el numero del pecado, y la circunstancia del parentesco en la confession y en el matrimonio”, includes kinship terms and notes on the kinship system (leaves 111r-116v), followed by numerals and notes on counting (leaves 116v-117v). Concludes with “De las bendiciones, y conjuros, y exorcismos” (chapter 16, leaves 118v-[2r]]), primarily in Latin with Spanish headings. Work compiled by Francisco de Lorra Baquio.

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Languages: Nahuatl

Genre: Catechisms and Creeds

Region: Spanish America