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De contemptu omnium vanitatum huius mundi
[Mexico]: , [before 1700]
Physical Description: 166-296 leaves ; 20 cm. (4to)
Call number: Codex / Ind / 23
Accession number: 05383
Notes: Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Signed on leaf 295 verso: Fr. Aug[usti]n de Vetancurt.
Date of publication probably mid 17th century and not after 1700.
Caption title written in Nahuatl with occasional quotations in Latin.
Manuscript consists of a series of sermons with one for each Sunday of the church calendar.
Leaf 296 is blank on recto and has illegible annotations on verso.
John Carter Brown Library copy bound as 2nd item of 2 with: De contemptu omnium vanitatum huius mundi ascribed to the Pseudo Saint Bernard and translated into the Nahuatl language by Augustín de Vetancurt, [Mexico, before 1700].
Digital facsimile copy of book available.
Languages: Nahuatl
Genre: Specimen
Region: Spanish America
