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Huei tlamahuiçoltica omonexiti in ilhuicac tlatóca Çihuapilli Santa Maria Totlaçònantzin Guadalupe in nican huei altepenahuac Mexico itocayocan tepeyacac

Lasso de la Vega, Luis, 17th cent, Valeriano, Antonio, ca. 1520-1605 · 1649 · Impresso con licencia en Mexico : en la Imprenta de Iuan Ruyz. · 7 pictures

This is a 1649 Nahuatl devotional book on the Virgin of Guadalupe, printed in Mexico City by Juan Ruiz and written by Luis Lasso de la Vega with a Nahuatl text by Antonio Valeriano, for Nahuatl-speaking readers. Its pictures are small letterpress pieces: decorative woodcut initials built from interlaced vines, leaves and curls, set beside dense black-letter columns of text, offering a designer models for ornamental capitals and historic type-and-border layouts.

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint · Catholic Church · CSAIP · Indian linguistics · Indians of Mexico · Guadalupe, Our Lady of · Imprint 1649

Internet Archive · John Carter Brown Library · Public domain (published before 1931) · More from this library