Doctrina christiana, y catecismo para instruccion de los indios, y de las de mas personas, que han de ser enseñadas en nuestra sancta fé
Subtitle: Con vn confessionario, y otras cosas necessarias para los que doctrinan, que se contienen en la pagina siguiente
By: Compuesto por auctoridad del Concilio Prouincial, que se celebro en la Ciudad de los Reyes, el año de 1583. ; Y por la misma traduzido en las dos lenguas generales, de este reyno, quichua, y aymara
Contributors: Acosta, José de, 1540-1600; Montt, Luis, 1848-1909
Publisher: Por Antonio Ricardo primero impressor en estos reynos del Piru.
Published: 1584
Place of publication: Impresso ... en la Ciudad de los Reyes
Language: spa; aym; que
Number of pages: 84
Notes: In Spanish, Quechua, and Aymara.

Backer-Sommervogel attributes this work to José de Acosta. Medina, however, argues that Acosta's role was primarily that of proof reader. Medina and Vargas Ugarte also note the participation of other Jesuits, members of other orders, and secular clergy in the preparation of this work. More specfically Vargas Ugarte maintains that Acosta drafted the Spanish text and that Fathers Bartolomé de Santiago and Blas Valera were the principal authors of the Quechua and Aymara version.

The first book printed in South America.

Although the title page and the table of contents indicate that the Confessionario was included within the Doctrina, this intention does not appear to have been carried out. The Confessionario para los curas de indios has its own title page, separate signatures and foliation, and the title page and colophon bear the date 1585. The "Provision Real" from the preliminaries of the Doctrina is repeated with typographical changes in the preliminaries of the Confessionario. In opposition Torres Saldamano ("autoridad en la materia" according to Medina) maintains that the two works were issued together. See: Enrique Torres Saldamano, Los antiguos jesuítas del Perú (Lima, 1882), p. 18.

Signatures: 2Ap8s A-Ip8s Kp12s (2A1 verso, 2A8 verso blank)

Numerous errors in foliation.

Title page vignette (Jesuit trigram); initials, printer's devices.

Errata statement on leaf [8]

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, I:300.

Sabin 20417.

Backer-Sommervogel I, col. 31-32.

Medina, J.T. Lima, 1.

Vargas Ugarte, R. Bib. peruana, 2.

Provenance of John Carter Brown Library copy: Luis Montt: bookplate.

John Carter Brown Library copy first of three items bound together, the other two of which are: Confessionario para los curas de Indios / Catholic Church. Province of Lima. Concilio Provincial (Lima, 1585); and Tercero cathecismo y exposicion de la doctrina Christiana, por sermones / Catholic Church. Province of Lima. Concilio Provincial (Lima, 1585). Has ms. annotation on title page, "Concuerda con el original," and a rubric on leaf 84 recto. Not counter signed by either Acosta or Juan de Atienza. May not be an authorized copy therefore.