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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Valadés, Diego b. 1533 (Author)
Corporate Author: Getty Research Institute (Contributor)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:Latin
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Published: Pervsiae [Perugia] Apud Petrumiacobum Petrutium 1579
In:Year: 1579
Further subjects:B Rhetoric Early works to 1800
B Engravings ; Italy ; 16th century
B Preaching Early works to 1800
B Preaching
B Indians of Mexico Early works to 1800 Missions
B Indians of North America Colonization History
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Description
Item Description:Contains many references to manners and customs of the Indians of Mexico and North America. - Some of the engraved plates and in-text ill. are signed by Valadés. The mnemonic alphabet on 2 leaves following N2 is copied from Lodovico Dolce's Dialogo on memory, as is the diagram of regions of the brain on L4v; see Mortimer. The folded table following PP4v lists sententiae. - Engraved t.p. incorporating female allegories of Theology and Rhetoric, with the device of the Franciscans at head and the arms of Gregory XIII, to whom the work is dedicated, at foot. Pietro Giacomo Petrucci's device at colophon (Zappella, fig. 960). Historiated initials, tailpieces. Text pages have ruled borders. - Includes index, p. [379-390]. - Signatures: a b A-M N² O-3D. - "Index avctorvm," p. [19-20], 1st sequence