Sep 26, 2019 - Sale 2517

Sale 2517 - Lot 276

Price Realized: $ 4,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1685.) [Ortega Montañes, Juan de.] Ordenanzas, preceptos y direcciones, con que el señor Obispo de Michoacán previene los curas beneficiados. [1], 35 leaves. Folio, disbound; minor worming; partial marca de fuego on top edge. Mexico: Juan Ribera, 1685
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An influential and strict set of new regulations for the religious life of Michoacán set forth by their new bishop; he later served as Archbishop of Mexico and Viceroy of New Spain. Leaves 23 to 28 relate to the Indians, obligating them to attend mass and prohibiting the worship of other gods, but also specifically exempting them from the Inquisition for certain offenses (leaf 25). Medina, Mexico 1352. One institutional holding in OCLC, and no other examples traced at auction.