[Doctrina christiana, traducida de la lengua castellana, en lengua zapoteca nexitza. Con otras addiciones utiles y necessarias para la educacion catholica y excitacion a la devocion christiana
By: Por D. Francisco Pacheco de Sylva.]
Contributors: Pacheco de Silva, Francisco
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1687
Place of publication: Mexico
Language: zap; spa
Number of pages: 140
Subjects: Doctrines; Indians of Mexico; Missions; Indian linguistics; Zapotec language; Languages; Texts; CSAIP; Catholic Church
Notes: Title and imprint from Ugarte; date from the license on [par.3]3 verso, dated May 1687.

A translation of Gerónimo de Ripalda's Doctrina christiana, con una exposicion breve, first published Burgos, 1591.

Signatures: pi⁴ [par.]-[par.4]⁴ [par.3]⁴ [par.5]⁴ A-2L⁴ [2M⁴]

Preliminary licenses and Prologo in Spanish, text of the Doctrina in Spanish and Zapotec Nexitza in parallel columns.

Woodcut image of the Virgin Mary with text: Dedicatoria a la reyna de los angeles Maria Señora Nuestra; tail-pieces, ornamental initials.

Ugarte, Salvador.  Cat. de obras escritas en lenguas indigenas de México, 279.

Medina, J.T.  México, 1400.

Viñaza.  Bib. lenguas indigenas de America, 219.

Palau y Dulcet (2. ed.), 269101.

The John Carter Brown Library copy is imperfect, lacking t.p. and final 5 leaves; no complete copy is extant. Insect damage with some loss of text. Bound in contemporary limp vellum.