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Ritual formulario, e institucion de curas, para administrar a los naturales de este reyno, los santos sacramentos del baptismo, confirmacion, eucaristia, y viatico, penitencia, extremauncion, y matrimonio, con advertencias muy necessarias... en la lengua quechua general.
Lima: Geronymo de Contreras, iunto al Conuento de Santo Domingo, 1631
Physical Description: [32], 720, [8] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : coat of arms, music, table ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Call number: BA631/ P438r
Accession number: 01663
Notes: Spanish instructions for priests, with sacramental and doctrinal texts proper alternating in Spanish and Quechua. Preliminaries in Spanish, with the exception of the Nicene Creed in Quechua (p. [19-20], 1st count]. “Introducion [sic] breve de los sacramentos en general” in Spanish (p. 1-11, 2nd count) is followed by sections on sacraments in particular (baptism of children, baptism of adults, confirmation, penitence, communion, extreme unction, matrimony), with Spanish and Quechua texts linked by identically numbered paragraphs (p. 12-643. Also contains “Dotrina christiana y declaracion de la ley de Dios” (p. 644-[692]); “Oraciones diversas”, including a song in Quechua set to music (p. 708-709); and a detailed table of contents.
T.p. identifies author as “presbitero, en la lengua quechua general: examinador en ella, y en la aymara, en este obispado”.
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Languages: Quechua
Genre: Catechisms and Creeds
Region: Spanish America
