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Tercero cathecismo y exposicion de la doctrina christiana, por sermones. : Para que los curas y otros ministros prediquen y enseñen a los yndios y a las demas personas. Conforme a lo que en el sancto Concilio Prouincial de Lima se proueyo.

Catholic Church. Province of Lima. Concilio Provincial (1583), Acosta, José de, 1540-1600, Atienza, Juan de, 1542-1592, Montt, Luis, 1848-1909. fmo RPJCB · 1585 · Impresso ... en la Ciudad delos Reyes, : Por Antonio Ricardo primero impressor en estos reynos del Piru. · 5 pictures

This is a 1585 Spanish-language catechism printed in Lima by Antonio Ricardo, the first printer in Peru, with passages in Aymara and Quechua for priests teaching Indigenous parishioners the Christian doctrine through sermons. The pictures are small woodcut historiated and ornamental initials, several with a floral or animal motif and one with a mounted rider, set beside dense black-letter type in two Andean languages.

Catholic Church · CSAIP · Indian linguistics · Imprint 1585

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