Regla christiana breue
Subtitle: p[ar]a ordenar la vida y t[i]po d[e]l [crist]iano q[ue] se q[ui]ere saluar y tener su alma dispuesta: p[ar]a q[ue] Jesu [Crist]o more en ella
By: impressa por ma[n]dado del reuerendissimo Senor do[n] fray Jua[n] Cʹumarraga primer Obispo de Mexico. Del consejo de su Magestad. [et]c
Contributors: Zumarraga, Juan de, 1468-1548; Huth, Henry, 1815-1878, former owner; Perez Gallardo, Basilio, former owner; Bernard Quaritch (Firm), former owner; Jones, Herschel V. (Herschel Vespasian), 1861-1928, former owner; Rosenbach, A. S. W. (Abraham Simon Wolf), 1876-1952, former owner; Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Mexico City (Mexico). Archbishop (1546-1548 : Zumarraga)
Publisher: Por mandado d[e]l reuere[n]dissimo senor do[n] fray Jua[n] Cʹumarraga ...
Published: 1547
Place of publication: [Mexico City]
Language: spa
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: Christian life; Catholic authors; Prayer; Catholic Church
Other titles: Regla christiana breve
Notes: Signatures: a-óı ṕþ.

Leaf c3 mis-signed b3.

Authorship has been attributed to Juan de Zumarraga.

Imprint from colophon.

Printed by Juan Pablos.

At head of titile page: episcopal insignia over cut of bishop and seven people, with the verse Galatians 6:16, the whole surrounded by decorative border. Ornamented capitals throughout. Small woodcut ills. at beginning of each of seven sections.

"A gloria y loor de la s[an]ctissima trinidad y de la sacratissima [et] immaculata virge[n] sancta Maria se nece y acaba esta doctrina d[e] los proficie[n]tes /q[ue] trata d[e] la regla y vida [christ]iana: co[n] la forma de la oracio[n] me[n]tal: y aparejo d[e] bien morir. Fue impressa en la grande y muy leal ciudad de Mexico por mandado d[e]l reuere[n]dissimo senor do[n] fray Jua[n] cŒumarraga p[ri]mer obispo d[e] Mexico. Del co[n]sejo d[e] su magestad. [et]c. A quie[n] por la co[n]gregacio[n] de los senores ob[is]pos fue cometido la copilacio[n] y exame[n] [et] impressio[n] d[e]lla. Acabose d[e] imprimir e[n] fin d[e]l mes d[e] enero: d[e]l ano de mil y quinie[n]tos y quarenta y siete anos.:."--Colophon.

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, I:151

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Garca Icazbalceta, J. Bibliografa mexicana del siglo XVI (1954 edition), 13

Palau y Dulcet, A. Manual del Librero hispano-americano (2. ed), 381388

Harrisse, H. Bibliotheca americana vetustissima, 276

Cataloged 20180323 gangulo

condition reviewed 20180406 cletizia