[Limosna, que en todos los reynos de las Indias, sus islas, y las Filipinas deben] dar los fieles para usar del indulto de comer carne en los dias quadragesimales que expresa

Creator

Mier y Villar, Juan de Bromsen, Maury A

Place

[Mexico City

Publisher

s.n

Date

1799]

Notes

Concerning the granting of Lenten indulgences and how much each class of person needs to pay

Fragmentary lower portion of a larger sheet meant to be pasted together

Dated and signed at end: .... en México á veinte y cinco de noviembre de mil setecientos noventa y nueve. Dr. D. Juan de Mier y Villar

A Lenten indulgence, with almost identical text, printed in Mexico City and dated 1793 issued by the Catédral de México Cabildo, by Juan de Mier y Villar, gives title proper as: Nos el doctor don Juan de Mier y Villar del consejo de S.M. su inquisidor decano del Santo Oficio de la Nueva España, canónigo de esta Stâ. Iglesia Metropolitana, juez apostólico principal, comisario subdelegado grâl. de la Stâ. Cruzada, del indulto quadragesimal, y privativo subcolector de medias annatas y mesadas eclesiásticas en este arzobispado, &c. Numerous editions of these Lenten indulgences were issued on a yearly basis

Local notes

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired from the estate of Maury A. Bromsen

John Carter Brown Library copy of 1793 indulgence taken from microfilm edition of Medina 8286 from film reel FHA 59.11; copy from microfilm housed in JCB bibliographical file along with reprinted text from Practica de la administracion y cobranza de las rentas reales y visita de los ministros que se ocupan en ellas / por Juan de la Ripia, Madrid, 1796 found in Google Books

John Carter Brown Library copy has ms. annotation at lower right of broadsheet indicating that this is the printer's exemplar copy

John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: wanting upper portion of indulgence; text of lower fragmentary portion begins: dar los fieles para usar del indulto de comer carne en los dias quadragesimales que expresa