Arte de la lengua mexicana segun la acostumbran hablar los Indios en todo el Obispado de Guadalaxara, parte del de Guadiana, y del de Mechoacan. Dispuesto, por orden, y mandato de N.M.R.P. Fr. Ioseph de Alcaras ...
By: Dedicado a la Santa Provincia de Santiago de Xalisco. Por el R.P.Fr. Joan Guerra, predicador, y difinidor actual de dicha provincia
Contributors: Murphy, Henry Cruse, 1810-1888
Publisher: por la Viuda de Francisco Rodriguez Lupercio, en la puente de Palacio
Published: 1692
Place of publication: En Mexico
Language: nah; spa
Number of pages: 62
Subjects: Doctrines; Indians of Mexico; Grammar; Missions; Texts; Indian linguistics; Nahuatl language; Languages; Liturgy; Glossaries, vocabularies; CSAIP; Catholic Church
Notes: Title, statement of responsibility, and imprint from a photocopy provided by the British Museum.

Dedication, licenses, and preface to the reader in Spanish, text in Spanish and Nahuatl.

Vocabulary (leaves 29-49) in Spanish/Nahuatl in double columns;  Instruccion breve, para administrar los Sacramentos (leaves 49-62) in Spanish and Nahuatl.

Signatures: pi⁸ A-G⁸ H⁸(-H8?)

Index on leaf H7 recto stops at leaf 28, postulating the existence of leaf H8 as a continuation, as cited by Medina.

Medina, J.T.  México, 1518.

Viñaza.  Bib. lenguas indigenas de America, 233.

Palau y Dulcet (2. ed.), 109789.

Sabin, 29118.

Ugarte, Salvador.  Cat. de obras escritas en lenguas indigenas de México, 187.

John Carter Brown Library copy is imperfect, lacking t.p., all preliminary leaves, text up to leaf 15, and leaf H8. Missing leaves are available in facsimile.

Provenance of John Carter Brown Library copy: Henry Cruse Murphy : bib. file.