Doctrina cristiana: : mas cierta y v[er]dadera p[ar]a ge[n]te sin erudicio[n] y letras: en q[ue] se co[n]tiene el catecismo o informacio[n] p[ar]a indios co[n] todo lo principal y necessario q[ue] el [christ]iano deue saber y obrar

unknown · 1546 · Impressa en Mexico : por ma[n]dado del reuere[n]dissimo señor do[n] fray Juan Çumarraga: primer ob[is]po de Mexico. · 3 pictures

A 1546 Spanish-language Catholic catechism printed in Mexico City by order of Bishop Juan de Zumárraga, intended for Indigenous readers and people without formal learning. Its pages set dense black-letter columns of text beside woodcut initials, with one framed title page showing a kneeling figure before a bishop, flanked by decorative woodcut borders. A designer might take the ornamented capital letters, hanging-tassel borders and compact printed columns as models for early colonial print typography.

Catholic Church · CSAIP · Catechisms, Spanish · Imprint 1546

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