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• Ortuño, sc [Browse]

Notes

• "This translation into the principal language of the country, the "Idioma Mexicano" mentioned on the title, was a landmark. It was therefore the most useful and widely used schoolbook for nativae children in Mexico throughout the following century, until finally overtaken by numerous Spanish editions of Ripalda's original text. ...
• "The volume is entirely a Mexican production. The translator, Ignacio de Paredes, was a Mexican Jesuit who taught at the Jesuit colleges in Mexico. The publishing house was founded in 1755. Its production was the work of one man but included works of Calderôn and other poets, all noted for their grceful press-work. The engraved frontispiece, placed opposite the Spanish title, shows St. Xavier preaching to native children and adults with top-knts and grass skirts, against the background of a missionary village on the seacoast. ..." -- BG.
• "First edition of this translation into Aztec of one of the most popular works of religious instruction in Mexican history. This catechism became the most familiar text to Mexican children for over a century.
• "Ripalda never left Spain, but his Doctrina Christiana was an important tool of Spanish missionaries. In 1667 it was printed in Mexico City... [and] was translated into Zacatecan, Mixtecan and other Mexican dialects, in publications of the seventeenth and early eighteenth century.
• [a]-z Aa-Cc4 Dd2 (J,K,V,W omitted).
• Dedicated to Manuel Joseph Rubio, y Salinas, Archbishop of Mexico, with his arms facing [a]3.
• Embossed stamp of British and Foreign Bible Society. Presentation insc to same by Benjn Blinkhovn on f. pastedown dated 1833.

Binding note

full vellum, remnants of ties.

Provenance

• Blinkoven, Benjamin
• British and Foreign Bible Society

References

NUC 496.56. Sabin: 71488; Palau y Dulcet no. 269110. Medina, La Imprenta en Mexico, no. 2727; not in Medina, Bibliotheca Americana. See J.M. Sanchez, Doctrina Christiana del ... de Ripalda è... Bibliografico (Madrid, 1909), pp. 16-18, with reproductions of both title-pages. On the printer, see E.F. Ledesma, Historia Critica de la Tipografica en la Ciudad de Mexico, pp. 33-35. For Ripalda, see DeBacker-Sommervogel 6.1864ff. For Paredes, see De Backer- Sommervogel 6.14ff.

Other title(s)

• Catecismo Mexicano que contiene toda la Doctrina Christiana con todas sus Declaraciones... Y despues para la comun utilidad de los Indios; y especialmente para alguna ayuda de sus zelosos Ministros ... traduxo del Castellano, en el puro, y proprio Idioma Mexicano ...
• Christianoyotl Mexicanemachtiloni In itech onactica, ihuan ontzauctica in Imelahualoca, ihuan in Icaquiztica in izquitlamantli nepapan Teotlatolli...

OCLC

177786011

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