Nov 06, 2014 - Sale 2364

Sale 2364 - Lot 316

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
(MEXICO--1713.) Pérez, Manuel. Farol indiano, y guia de curas de indios. bound with, as usual, Arte de el idioma mexicano. [48], 192, [3]; [16], 80, [3] pages. 4to, contemporary vellum, lacking part of backstrip, detached from text block; fragments of period manuscripts used as endpapers, minor dampstaining, fore-edge of final leaf torn with loss of two letters; early inscriptions on flyleaves and title page, embossed stamp on title page of Biblioteca Familiar Sotomayor Vaqueiro. México: Francisco de Ribera Calderón, 1713

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A popular guide to Mexican parish service during this period, with an emphasis on the cultural and language problems inherent in administering the sacraments to the Indians. It was frequently found in the estate inventories of parish priests (see Taylor, Magistrates of the Sacred, pages 156-7). The author was an Augustinian who taught the Nahuatl language at the University of Mexico for 22 years. Medina, México 2370; Palau 219404.