Doctrina y enseñança en la lengua maçahua de cosas muy vtiles, y prouechosas para los ministros de doctrina, y para los naturales que hablan la lengua maçahua ...
By: por el licenciado Diego de Nagera Yanguas, beneficiado del partido de Xocotitlan: comissario del Santo Officio de la Inquisicion, y examinador en la dicha lengua maçahua
Contributors: León, Nicolás, 1859-1929
Publisher: por Iuan Ruyz
Published: 1637
Place of publication: Impresso en Mexico
Language: cai
Number of pages: 177
Subjects: Doctrines; Mazahua language; Missions; Liturgy; Indian linguistics; Languages; Texts; Glossaries, vocabularies; Indians of Mexico; CSAIP; Catholic Church
Notes: Title, licenses, dedication, "Advertencias en lengua castellana muy necessarias para hablar con propriedade la lengua que llaman maçahua" and caption titles in Spanish; text for confession, sacraments, liturgy, etc. in Mazahua and Spanish in double columns.

Signatures: A-Z⁸

Woodcut arms of the dedicatee on A3 verso, decorative initials.

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, II:266.

Medina, J.T.  México, 491.

Viñaza.  Bib. lenguas indigenas de America, 172.

Palau y Dulcet (2. ed.), 187374-5.

John Carter Brown Library copy has printer's waste end fly-leaf from a text about a papal bull, with small woodcut of two saints. Some leaves cropped closely with loss of some leaf numbers and signature marks. Bound in contemporary vellum, inked spine.

Provenance of John Carter Brown Library copy: Nicolás León : bookplate.