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De contemptu omnium vanitatum huius mundi
[Mexico]: , [before 1700]
Physical Description: 53, 53-152, 154-165 leaves ; 20 cm. (4to)
Call number: Codex / Ind / 23
Accession number: 05382
Notes: Ms. codex.
Title from caption on leaf 1 recto.
Signed on leaf 165 recto: Fr. Aug[usti]n de Vetancurt.
Date of publication probably mid 17th century and not after 1700.
Caption title written in Latin with text primarily in Nahuatl and annotations in Spanish.
Translation into Nahuatl of: De contemptu omnium vanitatum huius mundi / ascribed to Pseudo Saint Bernard.
Text written in black with some sections in red and red rubrics.
"De contemptu omnium vanitatum huius mundi", in 25 chapters: leaves 1 recto-53 verso, 53 recto-107 recto, 1st and 2nd counts.
"Incipit secundus liber": leaves 107 verso-152 verso, 154 recto-165 recto, 2nd and 3rd counts.
John Carter Brown Library copy bound as 1st item of 2 with: [Sermones mexicanos] by Augustín de Vetancurt, [Mexico, before 1700].
John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: first few gatherings are wormed with some slight loss of text; leaf 1 has been torn and repaired with paper on the foredge with no loss of text.
Digital facsimile copy of book available.
Languages: Nahuatl
Genre: Catechisms and Creeds
Region: Spanish America
