Sep 27, 2018 - Sale 2486

Sale 2486 - Lot 448

Price Realized: $ 3,250
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Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1601.) Baptista, Juan. Advertencias para los confessores de los naturales (second part only). Illustrated with woodcut of the Franciscan arms. [12 of 16], 113-443, 104 leaves. 8vo, contemporary vellum, moderate wear, nearly detached from text block; bound without endpapers, inked inscription crossed out on title page, lacking the 4 preliminary leaves of indulgences as usual, also lacking leaves 359-360 and 368-369, inked paraph under engraving, moderate worming, minor dampstaining, a few early inked notes and scribbles; Franciscan marca de fuego on bottom edge, early monastic ownership inscriptions on second and final leaves, early monastic ex-libris bookplate on inner binding. Mexico: Convento Santiago Tlatelolco, por Melchor Ocharte, 1600 [but 1601 colophon]

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An important handbook for confessors in Spanish and Latin, with some sections also in Nahuatl, issued as a companion to Baptista's 1599 Confessionario (not included here). "The friar's intention here is not only to explain how morally and spiritually to be a good confessor of Indians, but also to explain to the priests the legal context in which they operate"--Szewczyk, 39 Books and Broadsides 15. Icazbalceta 1884, 115; JCB II:4; Medina, Mexico I:163; Palau 23463; Pilling 231; Sabin 3242.