[Conocimiento de Dios
Subtitle: primera parte
By: El M. Fr. Francisco de la Cruz, del Orden de Predicadores, calificador del Santo Oficio, vicario general, y visitador q[ue] fuè de la Prouincia de Santa Fè, prouincial vna, y otra vez en la del Pirù; del consejo de su Magestad, obispo de Santa Marta]
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1655
Place of publication: Lima
Language: spa
Number of pages: 375
Subjects: God; God (Christianity); Knowableness
Notes: Approbation and licence on leaf [4] recto, 1st count, dated 1654; approbation on leaf [7] verso, 1st count, dated 1654; author's dedication on leaf [8], 1st count, dated 1655.

Date of publication given by Vargas Ugarte as 1656 and by Palau as 1657.

Dedication, leaf [8], 1st count dated and signed: Lima, otubre 3. de 1655. Fr. Francisco de la Cruz.

Probably printed in Lima, according to Vargas Ugarte and Palau, like the second edition printed by Luys de Lyra, in 1660.

There were several printers working in Lima at this time and it cannot be stated that Luys de Lyra was also the printer of this first edition; the typography varies from the second edition and the first edition is foliated whereas the second edition is paginated. The first edition also lacks a running title whereas the second edition has "Conocimiento de Dios" as a running title.

Signatures: pi [par.]² ([par.]2 verso blank) A-2Z (R4 missigned Q4) 2A1-7.

Errata: leaf [10] recto, 1st count.

Woodcut initials.

Palau y Dulcet (2. ed.) 65161.

Vargas Ugarte, R. Imp. peruanos, 504.

John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: wanting title page leaf, leaf [2], 1st count, and all after leaf 375, 2nd count; also wanting leaf 40, 135, 192, 2nd counts; leaf 136, 2nd count, is torn and mutilated with paper in upper right corner, affecting text; leaf 353 torn with no loss of text;

John Carter Brown Library copy has title page transcription mostly taken from the edition printed in Lima by Luys de Lyra, 1660.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full treed calf.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Bromsen Fund.