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[Via Crucis en lengua Tarasca].
[Tarejero, Michoacán de Ocampo (Mexico)?]: [s.n.], [184-?]
Physical Description: 18 leaves : ill ; 23 cm. (4to)
Call number: Codex / Ind / 35
Accession number: 05395-1
Notes: Ms. codex. Title supplied by cataloguer.
Attributed to José Juan Aparicio Maya from evidence of handwriting and similar documents in the Tarascan language held by the John Carter Brown Library copy
The author was a Franciscan priest who was actively writing in Tarajero, Michoacán de Ocampo, Mexico in the late 1830's and 1850's. The manuscripts held by the John Carter Brown Library are dated between 1838 and 1853
Main text appears on leaves 1 recto-16 verso, followed by 2 leaves not in Aparicio Maya's handwriting but in a different hand referring to two joint owners of the manuscript named Santoro and Aguilar.
Text composed in black ink with highlights and rubrics in red. Caption title page, leaf 1 recto, consists of a prayer beginning "Ô santissima cruz!" under a framed illustration of a cross.
John Carter Brown Library copy bound as 1st item of 2 with: Comienza la historia de la pasción de Nuestro Señor Jesu Xpo [i.e. Christo], [Tarejero, Michoacán de Ocampo, Mexico, 18th century].
Digital facsimile copy of book available.
Languages: Tarascan
Genre: Catechisms and Creeds
Region: Spanish America
