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Aqui se co[n]tiene[n] vnos auisos y reglas para los confessores q[ue] oyeren confessiones delos espa̋noles que son, o han sido en cargo a los indios de las Indias del mar oceano:

Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566, Ternaux-Compans, Henri, 1807-1864. fmo RPJCB, Eguiguren, Francisco Antonio de. fmo RIBRL · 1552 · Fue impressa la presente obra enla muy noble & muy leal ciudad de Seuilla : En casa de Sebastian Trugillo impressor de libros. Fro[n]tero de nuestra se̋nora de Gracia · 1 picture

A 1552 Spanish devotional manual of advice for priests hearing confession, written by Bartolomé de las Casas and printed in Seville by Sebastián Trujillo for confessors of Spaniards who had charge over Indigenous peoples in the Indies. Its opening page has a woodcut of a seated priest hearing a kneeling penitent, framed by a carved vine-and-column border, with dense black-letter type beside it that a designer might study for early Spanish printing ornament.

Indians, Treatment of · Confession · Imprint 1552

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