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Avendaño, Fernando de.

Sermones de los misterios de nuestra santa fe catolica, en lengua castellana, y la general del Inca. Impugnanse los errores particulares que los indios han tenido

Lima: Jorge Lopez de Herrera, [1648]

Physical Description: 2 v. ; ([5], 129 leaves; 110 [i.e., 101] leaves ) ; 28 cm. (fol.)

Call number: BA648/ A951s/ 1-size

Accession number: 06270

Notes: Preliminary matter in Spanish. Consists of 32 sermons in Spanish and Quechua (“Parte primera” contains sermons 1-10; “Segunda parte”, without separate title page, contains sermons 11-32), with each Spanish paragraph followed by double columns of Quechua text. Spanish caption titles; excerpts from Scripture in Latin; additional Biblical references noted in margins; manuscript notations in pencil. JCB copy has vol. 1-2 bound together, with extensive index in Spanish (leaves 95-110 [i.e. 101] of “Segunda parte”) bound between leaves [5] (first count) and 1 (2nd count) of “Parte primera”. Medina suggests that there may have been a “Tercera parte”; Vargas Ugarte believes that Avendaño’s Sermones de los misterios was published together with: Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Lima (Peru). Carta pastoral de exortacion e instruccion contra las idolatrias de los indios del arçobispado de Lima, Lima, 1649. Vol. 1 worm holed with some loss of text; vol. 2, leaf 94 torn and mended, text affected.

Languages: Quechua

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Region: Spanish America