In Spanish and Quechua with Latin quotations.

Year of publication based on "licencia" date of "27. de mayo de 1648. años" (leaf [2] recto [1st count], vol. 1) and "aprobacion" date of "29. de junio de 1648" (leaf [3] recto [1st count], vol. 1)

Vol. 2 does not have a separate title page. Caption title: Segunda parte. Medina suggests that there may have been a "Tercera parte". Perhaps this is why Vargas Ugarte believes that Avendaño's Sermones de los misterios was published together with the Carta pastoral de exortacion e instruccion contra las idolatrias de los indios del arc̦obispado de Lima / Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Lima (Peru). Archbishop (1641-1671 : Villagómez) (Lima, 1649)

Errata statement on leaf [2] recto (1st count), vol. 1.

Vol. 1 signatures: pi1 2pip4s [A]p2s B-Qp8s Rp8s (-R8) (pi1 verso blank)

Vol. 2 signatures: Ap2s B-Mp8s Np4s O-Qp2s Rp2s (-R2)

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, II:367-68.

Medina, J.T. Lima, 288.

Palau y Dulcet (2. ed.) 68866.

Vargas Ugarte, R. Impresos peruanos, 410.

John Carter Brown Library copy has vol. 1-2 bound together and out of order; leaves 95-110 [i.e., 101] of the "Segunda parte" are bound between leaves 5 and 1 (2nd count) of the "Parte primera." Vol. 1 is worm holed with some loss of text. Title page of vol. 1 mended. Leaf 125 torn. Leaf 94 of vol. 2 torn and mended; text affected.