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Catholic Church.

Manual breue y forma de administrar los santos sacramentos à los indios vniuersalmente... Con otras muchas cosas necessarias en pueblos de Indios para todos los ministros. Recopilado por el P. F. Martin de Leo[n] de la orde[n] de Predicadores, de n[ost]ro P.S. D[omin]go.

Mexico: En la empre[n]ta de Maria de Espinosa, 1614

Physical Description: [1], 46, [1] leaves ; 16 cm. (in case 17 cm.) (8vo)

Call number: BA614/ C363m

Accession number: 08066

Notes: Text in primarily in Latin, with Spanish headings and instructions to priests, and brief sections in Nahuatl, including texts relating to baptism (leaves 5r-5v, 7r), matrimony (12v-13v, 14v-15r, 17r-17v, 21r, 23r), and extreme unction (26v-27r). Work compiled by Martín de León. Place of publication from colophon, which reads: En Mexico. En la empreta [sic] de la Vidua, de Diego Lopez Daualos. Año M. DC. XIIII.

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Languages: Nahuatl

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Region: Spanish America