Informacion en derecho
Subtitle: En defensa de la exempcion absoluta que las religiones tienen de los ordinarios, y de la especial de que los doctrinantes religiosos no sean por ellos visitados de costumbres, ni examinados en el idioma
By: Hecha por parte de la religion de nuestro glorioso padre San Francisco en esta prouincia y conuento de Lima. Para la causa que cerca desto se trata, en esta ciudad de los Reyes. Y al presente impresso a instancia de la misma religion
Edition: Second edition
Publisher: En la Impre[n]ta de Diego Garrido; mercader de libros
Published: 1621
Place of publication: Con licencia en Mexico
Language: spa
Number of pages: 27
Subjects: Missions; Ecclesiastical Privileges and immunities; Indians of South America; Franciscans; Catholic Church
Other titles: Iesus Maria.; Estatutos hechos para los dotrinantes.
Notes: Originally published in Lima, 1619.

Signed on leaf 24 verso: Fr. Francisco de Herrera, commissario general, y lector jubilado. Fr. Geronymo de Valera padre de Prouincia, calificador del Santo Officio, y lector jubilado. Fr. Miguel de Ribera, calificador del Santo officio, y lector jubilado.

"Tabla de los privilegios titulos y dudas que se contienen en esta informacion": leaves 27 verso and leaf [1], 2nd count.

A compilation of papal bulls regarding the catechization and conversion of the Indians. "Estatutos hechos para los dotrinantes", leaves 25-27 contain statutues that apply to Franciscans in Peru. Missionaries are forbidden to accept gifts or purchase goods from native Peruvians, nor are they to participate in  the running of the bulls. Only those Franciscans who speak the native language are to be allowed to minister to the Indians. If any brother is found to be ministering without knowing the language, he is to be relieved of his duties until he has learned "la lengua del la Inga". It is explicitly stated that priests  are to have a grammar of the native language "in order to learn it, and to administer the sacraments.

Signatures: A-N² [O]² ([O]2 verso blank)

Woodcut vignette of the Virgin Mary on title page; Franciscan coat of arms on verso of leaf 24; head and tail pieces; initials.

Medina, J.T. La Imprenta en México (1539-1821), 333.

Palau y Dulcet, A. Manual del librero hispano-americano (2. ed.), 114081n.

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, II: p. 152-153.

Purchase; 1909; 5649.

Purchase; 2018; 19-075.