Arte de la lengua mexicana, y breves platicas de los mysterios de N[uestra] Santa Fee Catholica, y otras para exortacion de su obligacion á los indios
By: compuesto por el P.F. Francisco de Avila, predicador, cura ministro por Su Magestad del pueblo de la Milpan, y lector del idioma mexicano, del Orden de los Menores de N.P. San Francisco.
Contributors: Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico, 1832-1867, former owner.; Andrade, José Maria, 1807-1883, former owner.; Herederos de la Viuda de Miguel de Rivera Calderón,; Spanish-American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress); Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Por los Herederos de la Viuda de Miguel de Ribera Calderó[n] en el Empedradillo
Published: 1717
Place of publication: En Mexico
Language: spa
Number of pages: 100
Subjects: Nahuatl language -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Arte de la lengua mexicana, y breves platicas de los mysterios de N. Santa Fe Catholica; Arte de la lengua mexicana, y breves pláticas de los misterios de N[uestra] Santa Fe Catolica, y otras para exhortación de su obligación a los indios
Notes: The author was curate of Milpa Alta in the diocese of Mexico and for twenty years taught the Nahuatl language in the convent of the Franciscan order, of which he was a member. In his introduction here, he comments on the condition of the Indians and the debt of the Spanish population to them.

Censored in the 1750s by the Mexican Inquisition, especially for the "Instruccion para enseñar lo que se resive en la Hostia" (leaf 34 r. and v.).

Signatures: pi⁴ [paragraph sign]-2[paragraph signs]⁴ ²[paragraph sign]¹ A⁸ B-H⁴ I¹. The single leaves before and after the main text are tipped in.

Errata at end.

LC Copy 1 has some text lined through in ink on leaves 34 and 35. Has the illustrated bookplates of Emperor Maximilian and José Manuel Andrade. Has ink stamp: Library of Congress, City of Washington, 1870. In 19th-c. LC binding, quarter calf with gold stamping on spine.

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