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Manual breue, y forma de administrar los santos sacramentos à los Indios. Recopilado por el P. Fr. Martin de Leon, de la orden de Predicadores
Mexico: Francisco Robledo , 1640
Physical Description: [2], 53, [1] leaves; 15 cm. (8vo)
Call number: BA640/ C363m
Accession number: 93-06
Notes: Originally compiled by Martín de León and edited by members of the convent of the Dominicans in Mexico City.
Originally published Mexico City, 1614.
Text in Latin, Spanish and Aztec.
Colophon: En Mexico por Fra[n]cisco Robledo, Año 1640.
Date of publication precedes imprint statement on title page.
Title vignette: coat of arms of the Dominican order.
Signatures: [A]⁸ B-G⁸ ([A]1 verso blank).
Leaf 23 misnumbered: "2".
Primarily in Latin, with Spanish headings and instructions to priests, and brief sections in Nahuatl relating to baptism (leaves 5r-5v, 6v-7r), matrimony (leaves 12 r-12v, 13v-14r,16r, 19v, 21r-21v), and extreme unction (leaves 25v-26r).
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Languages: Nahuatl
Genre: Specimen
Region: Spanish America
