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Juan de la Anunciación, fray, 1514-1594.

Doctrina christiana muy cumplida, donde se contiene la exposicion de todo lo necessario para doctrinar alos indios, y administralles los Sanctos Sacramentos. Compuesta en lengua castellana y mexicana por el muy reuerendo padre Fray Iuan dela Anunciacion

Mexico: Pedro Balli, 1575

Physical Description: [12], 286 [i.e. 288], [4] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 20 cm. (4to)

Call number: BA575/ J91d/ 2 cop.

Accession number: 28379, 16667

Notes: Text in Nahuatl and Spanish in parallel columns, set in roman and italic type respectively. A list of kinship expressions (p. 168-171) bears (corrective?) manuscript markings linking equivalent terms (mismatched in printed columns?). Includes table of contents.

JCB has 2 copies, both imperfect: copy 1 has 2 leaves bound in at end, “De la absolucion,” probably from another publication; to access digital facsimile copy of this copy of the book, click here.; copy 2: part of t.p. missing or illegible.

Languages: Nahuatl

Genre: Catechisms and Creeds / Vocabulary

Region: Spanish America