Compuestas por el padre fray Ioan Baptista, de la Orden del seraphico padre Sanct Francisco, ..
Foliation: pt. 1: [16], 14, 14-112, [58] leaves; pt. 2: [1], 113-272, 272-443, 104 leaves.
Text mostly in Latin, Spanish, some sections in Nahuatl.
Signatures: pt. 1: [A] * pi B C chi1 D-P *² A-G; pt. 2: pi1 Q-2Z [par.] [par.*]-[par.4*] [par.sec.]-[par.5sec.] [par.5sec.] A-N
Includes index.
"Indulgencias concedidas por diversos pontifices alos que se ocupan con los naturales," signature pi pt. 1, has final Indulgencia dated 1603 and is a later insert.
In pt. 1 leaf no. 14 repeated for insert chi1 in signature C with additional text for sections 16-19.
Errata in pt. 1: 2 unsigned leaves inserted between P8 and the Tabla; in some copies the errata are on 2 leaves signed * (the shorter errata); leaf *2 verso has decorative tail-piece lacking on the unsigned leaves. See Icazbalceta's comments (p. 467) on this and many other dissimilarities found in copies of pt. 1.
Many errors in foliation.
Colophon of pt. 2: Excudebat Ludouicus Ocharte Figueroa, Mexici, in Regio Collegio sancte Crucis, sancti Iacobi de Tlatilulco. Anno Domini 1601.
T.p. woodcut device of the Franciscan Order, woodcut of hands of St. Francis with the stigmata on verso of *4 (first group), repeated on verso of *8; decorative initials.
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