De contemptu omnium vanitatum huius mundi
Contributors: Vetancurt, Augustín de, 1620-1700; León, Nicolás, 1859-1929
Publisher: s.n.
Place of publication: Mexico
Language: lat
Number of pages: 165
Subjects: Mexican Manuscripts; Indian linguistics; Nahuatl language; Indian languages; Texts; Nahuatl Manuscripts; Manuscripts; Example
Work titles: De contemptu omnium vanitatum huius mundi. Nahuatl
Notes: Ms. codex.

Title from caption on leaf 1 recto.

Signed on leaf 165 recto: Fr. Aug[usti]n de Vetancurt.

Date of publication probably mid 17th century and not after 1700.

Caption title written in Latin with text primarily in Nahuatl and annotations in Spanish.

Translation into Nahuatl of: De contemptu omnium vanitatum huius mundi / ascribed to Pseudo Saint Bernard.

Text written in black with some sections in red and red rubrics.

"De contemptu omnium vanitatum huius mundi", in 25 chapters: leaves 1 recto-53 verso, 53 recto-107 recto, 1st and 2nd counts.

"Incipit secundus liber": leaves 107 verso-152 verso, 154 recto-165 recto, 2nd and 3rd counts.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound as 1st item of 2 with: [Sermones mexicanos] / by Augustín de Vetancurt, [Mexico, before 1700]

John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: first few gatherings are wormed with some slight loss of text; leaf 1 has been torn and repaired with paper on the foredge with no loss of text.

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

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Dr. Nicolás León: bookplate on front pastedown.