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Ripalda, Gerónimo de, 1536?-1618.

Doctrina cristiana, traducida de la lengua castellana en lengua zapoteca nexitza. Con otras adiciones útiles y necesarias para la educacion católica y excitacion á la devocion cristiana.

Oaxaca: Reimpreso en la tip. de L. San-German, á cargo de Juan Mariscal., 1882

Physical Description: [6], [III]-L, 216 p. ; 17 cm.

Call number: BA882/ R588d

Accession number: 06311

Notes: Preliminaries in Spanish; text of the Doctrina cristiana in Spanish and Zapotec in double columns; Misterios del Rosario in Zapotec. First published Mexico, 1687. The preliminary licenses in Spanish reprint the “Parecer del M.R.P. Mtro. Fr. Nicolás de Andrade, del Orden de Predicadores de la Provincia de San Hipólito Mártir de Oaxaca” [p. X-XIII] of 1687, in which there is mention of Father Ripalda as the author of the original work. Ugarte lists all eds. of the Doctrina cristiana under Father Pacheco de Silva and makes no mention of Father Ripalda as the author.

Languages: Zapotec

Genre: Catechisms and Creeds

Region: Spanish America