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Primera parte del sermonario, dominical, y sanctoral, en lengua mexicana. Contiene las dominicas, que ay desde la septuagesima, hasta la ultima de penthecostes, platica para los que comulgan el iueues sancto, y sermon d n]to.
Mexico: Iuan de Alcaçar, sold by Diego de Ribera, 1624
Physical Description: [18], 185, [2], 186-187, [2], 188-189, [2], 190-191, [2], 192-564, [92] p. ; 21 cm. (4to)
Call number: BA624/ M618p
Accession number: 14186
Notes: Text in Nahuatl, with Latin marginal notes, including scriptural references; preliminaries in Spanish with some Nahuatl. Includes “Tabla de los lugares asi de la sagrada escruptura”, giving, in Latin, over 200 Biblical extracts (in Bible sequence) as well as quotations from saints’ writings, with page references to Nahuatl versions incorporated in main text (p. [1-26] at end); “Tabla remissiva a otros Evangelios, assi de dominicas, como de santos, para que los padres predicadores puedan hazer otros sermones” (p. [27-75] at end); and “Phrases, y modos de hablar elegantes y metaphoricos, de los Yndios mexicanos, y porq[ue] he vsado de algunos dellos en el discurso de estos sermones”, with approximately 200 entries consisting of phrases or longer statements in Nahuatl, each followed by Spanish equivalent or gloss (p. [76-89] at end).
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Languages: Nahuatl
Genre: Bible selections / Catechisms and Creeds / Vocabulary
Region: Spanish America
