Baptista, Jean Fray
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Mexico, Ocharte, 1600 (Palau 23463, Medina 163; Sabin 3242; Porrua, 1949, nr 5963). Two volumes, in octavo, later binding in old vellum. 14 nn leaves; 112 folios; 2 nn leaves (erratas), 55 of 56 leaves (tabla sumaria), 2 nn leaves; 330 (113-443) folios; 104 nn leaves. Text partly in Spanish, partly in Latin, partly in Nahuatl. No chapters till leave 37, thereafter in Nahuatl & Spanish till leave 51; then in Spanish till leave 80, terminando en dos paginas en Nahuatl.; thereafter 5 leaves in two columns Nahuatl & Spanish; thereafter Spanish only till 112. Tabla in Spanish. Second volume: preliminaries in Spanish; text & index locorum in Latin. Colofon in Spanish and Latin. This work had a third volume planned which was never printed (Medina).
This is an important book of religious instructions for missionaries among the Mexican Indian population. It is also an early Mexican imprint, one of the 200 or so first books printed on the American continent!!. It is also rare. Medina locates 5 copies. The one at the British library lacks 4 leaves. Porrua priced the book at 1.500 $ in 1949, one of the most expensive books in his celebrated catalogue of Libros Mexicanos. It's make up is different in the (few) copies that are known to exist. As Medina states: “ casi todos presentan diferencias entre si, comenzando por las portadas ... unos las tiene en orden...otros tiene ambos el titulo del primero.... And Medina continues about the indulgencies (4 leaves) “fue impreso despues del libro para serle agregado: algunos ejemplares no lo tienen” (in our copy in facsimile) and (about the preliminary leaves) “he visto ejemplares que les tiene repetidos en ambos tomos; otros traen parte de cada uno, y otros no tienen ninguno en el segundo (as in our copy) sino todos en el primero.”
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