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<dd>Author attribution from spine given as "Gilberti"; author attribution can be inferred from publication of the author's Vocabulario en lengua de Mechuacan, first printed in Mexico City, 1559</dd>
<dd>Title from caption on leaf [1] recto</dd>
<dd>Date of publication of 1559 can be conjectured from the author's publication of Vocabulario en lengua de Mechuacan, in Mexico City, 1559</dd>
<dd>"Evangelios de los santos ...", leaves [82-223], are a set of voices of the Lord and another set of scriptural texts with the Latin translated into Tarasco, and two cycles of sermons in Tarasco</dd>
<dd>Includes sermons in the Tarascan language and other religious texts, in several hands, written in black ms. hand with occasional red highlights</dd>
<dd>John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: caption title page, leaf [1] recto, and many other leaves are wormed causing some loss of text</dd>
<dd>John Carter Brown Library copy half bound in 19th century morocco</dd>
<dd>Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: S. Nicolás León: bookplate on front pastedown</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Manuscripts, Mexican; Manuscripts, Tarascan; Catholic Church; Tarascan language; Tarasco Indians; Indian linguistics; Manuscripts; Imprint 1559</div>
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<dl><dd>Gilberti, Maturino, 1498-1585</dd>
<dd>León, Nicolás, 1859-1929. fmo RIBRL</dd></dl></div>
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