Sermons

Description

Title: Sermons
Published / Created: [between 1500 and 1600]
Publication Place: Central America
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of Sermons in Nahuatl, beginning defectively in the sermon for the second Sunday after Easter, through the 23rd Sunday after Pentecost; material for each Sunday includes a reading from the Epistles with a "Declaracion del testo" and an "Aplicacion del testo," and a reading from the Gospels with the same exegetic material. Some marginal notes in Spanish, 16th century
Description: In Nahuatl and Spanish.
Watermarks: similar to Briquet Croix Latine 5688.
Script: Written in small, even humanistic script, with heavy clubbing of ascenders and descenders.
Initials, 2-line, are square capitals done by scribe in brown ink. Headings by scribe in a larger version of humanistic script.
Many signs of wear: stains in margin, large water stain running into gutter from f. 110 on, some worm holes in upper and lower margins, but no loss of text.
Binding: Nineteenth century. Rigid vellum case. Edges spattered blue/green.
Provenance: Purchased from James E. Ritch, Jr., in 1966, with the Edwin J. and Frederick W. Beinecke Fund.
Extent: ff. i + 202 + i : 204 x 146 (160 x 108) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Nahuatl
Spanish

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: Beinecke MS 369
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Genre: Sermons
Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Renaissance Central America 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Central America.
Subject (Name): Catholic Church
Subject (Topic): Liturgy
Manuscripts, Medieval
Nahuas
Sermons
Sermons, Nahuatl
Subjects: Catholic Church > Liturgy
Catholic Church > Sermons
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Nahuas
Sermons > Early works to 1800
Sermons, Nahuatl
Central America
Central America > 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Sermons. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.