[Doctrina christiana, traducida de la lengua castellana, en lengua zapoteca nexitza. Con otras addiciones utiles y necessarias para la educacion catholica y excitacion a la devocion christiana

Creator

Ripalda, Gerónimo de Pacheco de Silva, Francisco

Place

[Mexico

Publisher

[s.n.]

Date

1687]

Notes

Woodcut image of the Virgin Mary with text: Dedicatoria a la reyna de los angeles Maria Señora Nuestra; tail-pieces, ornamental initials

Signatures: pi⁴ [par.]-[par.4]⁴ [par.3]⁴ [par.5]⁴ A-2L⁴ [2M⁴]

Preliminary licenses and Prologo in Spanish, text of the Doctrina in Spanish and Zapotec Nexitza in parallel columns

Title and imprint from Ugarte; date from the license on [par.3]3 verso, dated May 1687

A translation of Gerónimo de Ripalda's Doctrina christiana, con una exposicion breve, first published Burgos, 1591

Local notes

The John Carter Brown Library copy is imperfect, lacking t.p. and final 5 leaves; no complete copy is extant. Insect damage with some loss of text. Bound in contemporary limp vellum