Details

Subject(s)

• Marriage (Canon law) [Browse]
• Marriage—Religious aspects—Catholic Church [Browse]
• Indigenous peoples of Mexico—Marriage customs and rites [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Printer

• Pablos, Juan, -1561? [Browse]

Former owner

• Gunther, Charles Frederick, 1837-1920 [Browse]

Bookseller

• Rosenbach Company [Browse]

Notes

• First manual on marriage according to the laws of the Catholic Church written in the New World, also treating matrimonial customs of the Indians of Mexico.
• Illustrated t.p. with large woodcut, surrounded by a double frame; imprint statement is at the bottom of the woodcut, within the frame.
• Colophon: Finitus liber ad laudem Dei Anno partae salutis, Millessimo quingentissimo quinq[ua]gessimo. 7. Calendis Ianua. apud Ioannem Paulum Brissensum calchographum. In insigni, & fielissima Mexicana ciuitate.
• Signatures: a-2t⁸ 2v⁸(-v8).
• Includes index.

Provenance

WHS copy is Charles F. Gunther's copy, acquired 11/12/26 from Rosenbach; inv. 563.

References

• Palau y Dulcet (2nd ed.) 459194 [i.e. 359194]
• Thacher, II, p. 97 (Miscellanea)
• Wagner 27

Other title(s)

• Specvlvm conivgiorvm.
• Speculum conjugiorum.

LCCN

2005574757

OCLC

60349100

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