Tercero catecismo, y exposicion de la doctrina christiana por sermones
Subtitle: Paraque los curas, y otros ministros prediquen, y enseñen à los indios, y à las demàs personas
By: conforme a lo que se proveyò en el Santo Concilio Provincial de Lima el año pasado de 1583. ; Mandado reimprimir por el Concilio provincial del año de 1773
Contributors: Acosta, José de, 1540-1600; Brasseur de Bourbourg, abbé, 1814-1874; Brown, John Nicholas, 1861-1900; Pinart, Alphonse
Publisher: En la Oficina de la calle de San Jacinto
Published: 1773
Place of publication: [Lima]
Language: spa; que
Number of pages: 515
Notes: Spanish and Quinchua texts only; the original edition (Lima, 1585) also contained an Aymara text.

Authorship has been attributed to José de Acosta among others.

Page 214 in copy/variant 1 is misnumbered 340.

Signatures of copy/variant 1: pi1 1[par.]-5[par.]p2s A-6Gp2s (F missigned E) chi1 (pi1, chi1 versos blank)

Signatures of copy/variant 2: pi1 1[par.]-5[par.]p2s A-4Yp2s (F missigned E) p2s[par.]-6[par.]p2s 5F-6Gp2s chi1 (pi1, chi1 versos blank)

Title page vignette; tail pieces.

Includes bibliographical references.

Brown, J.C.  Cat., 1493-1800, III:1884.

Medina, J.T. Lima, 1356.

Vargas Ugarte, R. Impresos peruanos, 2076.

Sabin 94838n.

Palau y Dulcet (2. ed.) 330312.

John Carter Brown Library holds two copies, each of which corresponds to a different variant. Copy/variant 1 differs from copy/variant 2 in signatures and pagination, and in the wording of the title but apparently not in the text of the twenty-sixth sermon. The pagination of copy/variant 1 is that given above. The pagination of copy/variant 2 is: [22], 364, [24], 385-429, 450-489, 500-515, [1] p. The title of the twenty-sixth sermon in copy/variant 1 (on p. 365, 2nd count) reads: "Sermon XXVI. del octavo, noveno y decimo mandamientos. ..." The title of the twenty-sixth sermon in copy/variant 2 (on p. [1], 3rd count--see pagination statement above) reads: "Sermon XXVI. del VIII. IX. y. [sic] X. mandamientos, ..."

Provenance of John Carter Brown Library copy/variant 2: Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg : bookplate; Alphonse Pinart: bookplate; John Nicholas Brown: bookplate.