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Colloquios de la paz, y tranquilidad christiana en lengua mexicana.
Mexico: Pedro Ocharte, 1582
Physical Description: [16], 56, 59-121, [1] leaves : ill. (woodcuts) ; 15 cm. (8vo)
Call number: BA582/ G111c/ 2 copies
Accession number: 478, 06663
Notes: Preliminary matter in Spanish includes table of contents (leaves [12-14r]). Main text entirely in Nahuatl, with caption titles in Latin and Quechua, and marginal notes in Latin including references to Scripture. Copy 1 contains some early ms. annotations in the margins. Begins and ends with short laudatory poems by Frater Antonius in Latin (leaves [14v], first count, and [1], final count).
JCB has 2 copies; copy 2 is imperfect, lacking initial and concluding poems. Author’s name, Ioã de Gaona, mentioned in license on t.p. verso.
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Languages: Nahuatl
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Region: Spanish America
