(MEXICO--1585.) Estatutos generales de Barcelona, para la Familia Cismontana, de la Orden de nuestro Seraphico Padre S. Francisco. Illustrated title page, with full-page woodcut on verso. 125, [15] leaves. 4to, early vellum from another volume; later inked notes on title page, first 6 leaves worn with some loss of text including part of imprint lines on title page, tastefully stabilized, minor marginal repairs to a few other pages, minor dampstaining, no free endpapers; marca de fuego on top edge. México: Pedro Ocharte, 1585
First Mexican printing of the regulations of the Franciscan order, first set forth in 1541 in Barcelona and here given as revised at Toledo in 1583. These statutes formalized the ban on anyone of Jewish ancestry joining the Franciscan order through a "limpieza de sangre" clause (see Martínez, Genealogical Fictions, page 215). Leaves 102-9 are devoted to the "Estatutos generales de las Indias." Also includes the 4-leaf appendix "Tabula capituli generalis intermedii Cismontani Toleti celebrati anno 1583" as issued. García Icazbalceta 96; JCBI, page 302; Medina, México 104; Palau 83547; Sabin 57469 ("excessively rare"). One other copy traced at auction since 1880 (the Doheny sale in 1988).
