The two parts issued together. Originally published separately: Mexico City, 1556 (main text); Madrid, 1571 (appendix)

Main text in two columns.

Title page of appendix reads: Appendix ad Speculum coniugiorum per eundem fratrem Alphonsum à Vera Cruce, ordinis eremitarum Sancti Augustini, sacrae paginae doctorem, & cathedraticum primarium, vniuersitatis Mexicanae in Nouo Orbe. Iuxta definita in sacro vniuersali Concilio Tridentino, circa matrimonia clandestina. Mediolani, ex officina typographica quon. Pacifici Pontij. M. D. XCIX.

Vignette on title pages.

Signatures: [5-sided star]⁶ A-2C⁴ 2D-2O⁸ 2P⁶; [cross]⁴ ²A-²L⁴ ([star]1 verso blank). Leaf N1 signed as: "M"; leaf P2 signed as: "O2"; leaf 2B 1 signed as: "B"

Errors in paging, including p. 66-67 misnumb.: "70-71" and p. 70-71 misnumb.: "66-67"

Includes index.

Appendix contains discussion of problems concerning marriage laws that had become important because of the decisions of the Council of Trent on clandestine marriages. At the end three papal bulls issued by Leo X, Hadrian VI and Pius V are included, granting special privileges to the missionary orders in America.

Alden, J. European Americana, 599/9.

Medina, J.T. Bib. hispano-americana, 403.

Palau y Dulcet (2nd ed.) 359153.

BM STC Italian p. 20.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary vellum.

John Carter Brown Library copy purchased from the Trust Fund of Lathrop Colgate Harper.