<div class="description">
<dl><dd>53, 53-152, 154-165 leaves ; 20 cm. (4to)</dd></dl><p>Ms. codex
</p>
<dl><dd>Title from caption on leaf 1 recto</dd>
<dd>Signed on leaf 165 recto: Fr. Aug[usti]n de Vetancurt</dd>
<dd>Date of publication probably mid 17th century and not after 1700</dd>
<dd>Caption title written in Latin with text primarily in Nahuatl and annotations in Spanish</dd>
<dd>Translation into Nahuatl of: De contemptu omnium vanitatum huius mundi / ascribed to Pseudo Saint Bernard</dd>
<dd>Text written in black with some sections in red and red rubrics</dd>
<dd>"De contemptu omnium vanitatum huius mundi", in 25 chapters: leaves 1 recto-53 verso, 53 recto-107 recto, 1st and 2nd counts</dd>
<dd>"Incipit secundus liber": leaves 107 verso-152 verso, 154 recto-165 recto, 2nd and 3rd counts</dd>
<dd>John Carter Brown Library copy bound as 1st item of 2 with: [Sermones mexicanos] / by Augustín de Vetancurt, [Mexico, before 1700]</dd>
<dd>John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: first few gatherings are wormed with some slight loss of text; leaf 1 has been torn and repaired with paper on the foredge with no loss of text</dd>
<dd>John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full limp vellum</dd>
<dd>Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Dr. Nicolás León: bookplate on front pastedown</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Jesus Christ; Manuscripts, Mexican; Manuscripts, Nahuatl; Nahuatl language; Indian linguistics; Manuscripts; Imprint 1650; Imprint 1700</div>
<div class="fn value">
<dl><dd>Bernard</dd>
<dd>Vetancurt, Augustín de, 1620-1700</dd>
<dd>León, Nicolás, 1859-1929. fmo RIBRL</dd></dl></div>
Internet Archive identifier