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Doctrines, Texts, Missions, CSAIP, Catholic Church, Indian linguistics, Franciscans, Nahuatl languagePlaces
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Libro dela miseria y breuedad de la vida del hombre : y de sus quatro postrimerias, en lengua mexicana
1604, En la emprenta de Diego Lopez Daualos, y à su costa
in Nahuatl
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Signatures: pi⁸ A-X⁸ Y⁶ pi²
Text in Nahuatl; preliminary Licencias, Prologo, etc., the Tabla de los tractados y capitulos deste libro and Summario de las materias deste libro in Spanish, Tabla de las auctoridades que en este libro se alegan in Latin.
Woodcut device of the Franciscan order on t.p., woodcut ill. of Death with a scythe and text from Eccl. 7 on t.p. verso, escudo de la Orden franciscana on pi4 verso; woodcut decorative initials, head- and tail-pieces.
Errata on unsigned leaf pi1 at end; full-page woodcut of Virgin and Child on recto of pi2, blank on verso; these two final leaves not mentioned in Medina and Viñaza bibliographies.
JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, I:1393.
Medina, J.T. México, 213.
Viñaza. Bib. lenguas indigenas de America, 109.
Sabin, 3996.
Sabin, 36134.
John Carter Brown Library has 2 copies; copy 1 is imperfect, lacking signatures B and C, leaves 9-24, which have been supplied in ms., and lacking all after leaf 148; leaf 148 is a variant, lacking signature mark Tiiij, ending with the word "Finis," blank on verso.
John Carter Brown Library copy 2 has early ms. notes on verso of final leaf pi2.
John Carter Brown Library copy 2 is imperfect, lacking t.p. which has been supplied in ms., preliminary leaves pi2-4, signatures A1.8, Y1,2,3; insect damage with loss of text in signatures A and B.
John Carter Brown Library copy 2 in original limp vellum binding; previous owner marked in ink on bottom edge St. Fran.co de Mexico.
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