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Instruccion christiana, y guia de ignorantes para el cielo. En lengua mixe, escrita por el P. fray Augustin de Quintana, de la Orden de Predicadores.
Puebla: por la Viuda de Miguel de Ortega Bonilla, 1729
Physical Description: [60], 232, 232-550, [25] : ill. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Call number: BA729 /Q6i
Accession number:
Notes: Text in Spanish and Mixe.
Woodcut image (head-piece) with dedication "A la Soberana Emperatriz del Cielo Maria Santissima del Rosario", flanked by rows of printer's ornaments; title in double ornamental border, emblem of the Order of Santo Domingo at bottom of t.p. and repeated on leaf 3V4 verso and armorial of the order on verso of leaf signature 8; ornamental initials and tail-pieces.
Preliminary leaves 3.3-8.1 include: Modo de hablar la lengua mixe, Arte de la lengua mixe, and Notas del arte.
Tabla de los capitulos, que contienč la instruccion christiana; Indice de las cosas notables de la instruccion christiana, leaves 3X-3Z at end.
Signatures: 1-7⁴ 8˛ A-I⁴ J-2I⁴ 2J-3I⁴ 3J-3Z⁴.
Errata statement, p. [6-7], 4th count.
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Languages: Mixe
Genre: Grammar / Vocabulary / Catechisms and Creeds
Region: Spanish America
