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Thema para que se oy galaboz del señor
[Michoacán de Ocampo, Mexico?]: , [1559?]
Physical Description: 223 leaves : ill. ; 17 cm. (4to)
Call number: Codex / Ind / 6
Accession number: 06492
Notes: Ms. codex.
Author attribution from spine given as "Gilberti"; author attribution can be inferred from publication of the author's Vocabulario en lengua de Mechuacan, first printed in Mexico City, 1559.
Title from caption on leaf [1] recto.
Date of publication of 1559 can be conjectured from the author's publication of Vocabulario en lengua de Mechuacan, in Mexico City, 1559.
"Evangelios de los santos ...", leaves [82-223], are a set of voices of the Lord and another set of scriptural texts with the Latin translated into Tarasco, and two cycles of sermons in Tarasco.
Includes sermons in the Tarascan language and other religious texts, in several hands, written in black ms. hand with occasional red highlights.
John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: caption title page, leaf [1] recto, and many other leaves are wormed causing some loss of text.
John Carter Brown Library copy half bound in 19th century morocco.
Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: S. Nicolás León: bookplate on front pastedown.
Digital facsimile copy of book available.
Languages: Tarascan
Genre: Specimen
Region: Spanish America
