Instruccion christiana, y guia de ignorantes para el cielo
By: En lengua mixe, escrita por el P. fray Augustin de Quintana, de la Orden de Predicadores
Contributors: León, Nicolás, 1859-1929
Publisher: por la Viuda de Miguel de Ortega Bonilla
Published: 1729
Place of publication: En la Puebla
Language: spa; cai
Number of pages: 550
Subjects: Doctrines; Indians of Mexico; Grammar; Missions; Indian linguistics; Languages; Mixe language; Glossaries, vocabularies; CSAIP; Catholic Church
Notes: Text in Spanish and Mixe.

Woodcut image (head-piece) with dedication "A la Soberana Emperatriz del Cielo Maria Santissima del Rosario", flanked by rows of printer's ornaments; title in double ornamental border, emblem of the Order of Santo Domingo at bottom of t.p. and repeated on leaf 3V4 verso and armorial of the order on verso of leaf signature 8; ornamental initials and tail-pieces.

Preliminary leaves 3.3-8.1 include: Modo de hablar la lengua mixe, Arte de la lengua mixe, and Notas del arte.

Tabla de los capitulos, que contienè la instruccion christiana; Indice de las cosas notables de la instruccion christiana, leaves 3X-3Z at end.

Signatures: 1-7⁴ 8² A-I⁴ J-2I⁴ 2J-3I⁴ 3J-3Z⁴

Errata statement, p. [6-7], 4th count.

Medina, J.T. Puebla, 373.

Palau y Dulcet (2. ed.), 194.

Ugarte, Salvador.  Cat. de obras escritas en lenguas indigenas de México, 329.

John Carter Brown Library copy has considerable insect damage, with some loss of text.

Provenance of John Carter Brown Library copy: Nicolás León : bookplate.