De el bien excellencias y obligaciones de el estado clerical y sacerdotal
By: por el R. P. Ioan Sebastian prouincial de la Compañia de Iesus en el Peru
Publisher: Por Francisco del Canto
Published: 1615
Place of publication: Impresso en Lima
Language: spa
Number of pages: 817
Subjects: Catholic Church; Clergy
Notes: Imprint from colophon.

Imprint given on title page as: En Sevilla: por Matias Clavijo, M. DC. XV.

First printed in Seville in 1615 and sometimes includes an engraved frontispiece with portraits of Saints Ignatius of Loyola, Xavier, Peter, and Paul; it is unclear whether this Lima imprint was intended to contain this plate; a cursory look at the Seville imprint of the same year does not reveal the identical page misnumberings and includes indexes on 74 unnumbered pages following the text. The colophon in that edition clearly gives the imprint as Seville, suggesting that the Lima edition of 1615 is newly typeset in Lima by Francisco del Canto.

A second part to this work with title "De el bien excellencias y obligaciones de el estado clerical y sacredotal, Segunda Parte" was printed by Matias Clavijo in Seville in 1620 (Medina, J.T. Biblioteca hispano-americana (1493-1810), 712)

"De las oras canonicas", p. 715-756, 758-763, 763-817, 3rd though 5th counts, has separate caption title.

Signatures: pi1 (pi1 verso blank) [sec.]⁴ ([sec.]4 verso blank) [par]⁸ A-3D⁸ (3A4 missigned 3A2) (R1, 2C8, versos blank) 3E⁴

Errors in paging: p. 266, 2nd count, misnumbered 662; p. 609, 623, 663, and 742, 3rd count, misnumbered 607, 607, 649, and 724; p. 808, 811, and 815, 5th count, misnumbered 811, 797, and 814.

Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus, VI: col. 284, no. 1.

Cf. Medina, J.T. Biblioteca hispano-americana (1493-1810), 633.

Palau y Dulcet, A. Manual del librero hispano-americano (2. ed.), 480.

Purchase; 2017; 18-008.

Text primarily in Spanish with some passages in Latin.

John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: the name of the printer in colophon is excised; suggested name of printer as Francisco del Canto is given by the bookseller and borne out by Medina who states that Francisco del Canto served as the printer for the Jesuit order in Peru in his Imprenta en Lima (1584-1824), p. XXXVIII-XL In addition, the printer's IHS vignette and the place of publication and name of printer has been possibly pasted over by a piece of paper and an unintelligible inscription have been written upon it.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full limp vellum.

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