Description
- Abstract:
- The canons of the first Provincial Council held in Mexico City in 1555.
- Notes:
- Collation: a-f chi1 (a1 verso blank)
- T.p. mostly woodcut, with the coat-of-arms of Archbishop Montúfar, and his motto: Pro [Christ]o legatio[n]e fu[n]gimur. (The letters n are printed backwards.)
- Black letter type with ornamented and historiated capitals.
- Imprint from colophon.
- Printer's errors: leaf xl numbered lx; woodcut capitals on leaves vii recto (N), viii verso (M) and xiv verso (O) are upside down; capital on leaf xvii verso is a V instead of an A. Catchword discrepancies: 5v/6r have aplicado/applicado; 10v/11r have pasqua/pascua; 22r lacks y from 21v; 31v/32r have zes:ni/zes,ni; 34r/34v have ar,/ar:; 41r lacks y from 40v; 41r/41v have mism/mesmo; 45r/45v have citatiora/citatoria.
- Table of contents on leaves xlvii recto to xlix recto; colophon on leaf xlix verso.
- "A loor y seruicio de Dios ma[n]do el muy illustre y reuere[n]dissimo señor do[n] fray Alo[n]so d[e] Mo[n]tufar arçobpiso [sic] d[e]sta dicha s[an]cta yglesia d[e] Mexico imprimir estas co[n]stituciones signodales. Las q[ua]les fueron acabadas [e] ymprimidas por Jua[n] Pablos lo[m]bardo, p[ri]mer impressor en esta gra[n]de, insigne y muy leal ciudad d[e] Mexico a diez dias d[e] hebrero. Año d[e] la encarnacio[n] de N[uest]ro Señor Jesu [Christ]o de .M.d.lvi. Años. [vignette] Ma[n]da su Reuerendissima Señoria q[ue] se de y pague por este libro enq[ua]dernado en pergamino, vn peso y medio de tepuzq[ue] y no mas. [vignette]" -- coloph.
Citation
"Constituciones del arçobispado y prouincia de la muy ynsigne y muy leal ciudad de Tenuxtitla[n] Mexico de la nueua España"
(1556).
John Carter Brown Library.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:577279/
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