[Mexico]. [Religion]

Doctrinas y Sermones para Mision Dispuestas por el R.P. Fray... [manuscript title]

[Queretaro? ca. 1804-1825]. 420,[35]pp. Contemporary sheep, spine gilt, leather label. Moderate wear to corners and edges; boards and spine scuffed. Occasional minor staining and foxing. Accomplished in a small but highly legible script. Still very good. Item #5684

An extensive manuscript compilation of Catholic doctrines, teachings, and sermons, assembled in Mexico during the early 19th century. The author is unidentified, but an engraved indulgence dated 1804 from the Colegio de Santa Cruz in Queretaro is tipped onto the manuscript title page verso, leading to the supposition that this work originated at that date and location. The indulgence bears an image of the Virgin of Guadalupe and the Latin phrase "Columba Mea in Forminibus Petrae," and promises various lengths of indulgence from several of the bishops of colonial Mexico. The initial 115 pages contains over thirty entries comprising the author's lessons on church doctrine and other teachings on subjects such as faith, hope, charity, neighborly love, marriage, and much else. Each entry is headed by a short biblical quotation from which the text takes its prompt. The remaining 340 pages contain over fifty original sermons on a wide variety of topics, each also, as is traditional, with a Bible passage as its inspiration. A detailed table of contents follows the title page. The final four entries are in an altered hand and were added later, with last being dated, "Zalapa 1825." A wealth of original, Mexican Catholic teaching in manuscript.

Price: $2,500.00