Speculum coniugiorum
By: aeditum per R.P.F. Illephonsum a Veracruce ... ; accessit in fine compendium breue aliquorum priuilegiorum, praecipué concessorum ministris sancti euangelij huis Noui Orbis.
Contributors: John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: In aedibus Ioannis Pauli Brissensis
Published: 1556
Place of publication: Excussum opus Mexici
Language: lat
Number of pages: 686
Subjects: Marriage (Canon law).; Marriage -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.; Indians of Mexico -- Marriage customs and rites.
Other titles: Specvulvm conivgiorvm
Notes: Palau y Dulcet (2nd ed.) 459194 [i.e. 359194]
Thacher, II, p. 97 (Miscellanea)
First manual on marriage according to the laws of the Catholic Church written in the New World, also treating matrimonial customs of the Indians of Mexico.
Illustrated t.p. with large woodcut, surrounded by a double frame; imprint statement is at the bottom of the woodcut, within the frame.
Colophon: Finitus liber ad laudem Dei Anno partae salutis, Millessimo quingentissimo quinq[ua]gessimo. 7. Calendis Ianua. apud Ioannem Paulum Brissensum calchographum. In insigni, & fielissima Mexicana ciuitate.
Signatures: a-2t⁸ 2v⁸(-v8).
Includes index.
LC copy has numerous marginal notes in ink in comtemporary hand throughout.