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Archaeology of a Book: An experimental approach to reading rare books in archival contexts Main Menu Introduction Reading the First Books is an exploration of America's earliest printed books Path: Production This path explores the narratives of production embedded in the material qualities of the Advertencias. Path: Collection Path describes the collection of early printed books in religious libraries across Mexico. 16-18th centuries. Path: Acquisition Path describes the dispersal of early printed books in libraries and private collections beyond Mexican borders. Path: (Digital) Futures Book history in a digital future References References, citations, and further reading Terms Index of terms Authorship & Acknowledgements LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collection

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Pedro Balli's Confessionario Mayor (1578) Hannah Alpert-Abrams Title page of the Confessionario Mayor, en la lengua Mexicana y Castellana. Text is framed by an elaborate classical design, with left and right columns depicting nude Adam and Eve, winged cherubs above and below. / Text reads: Confessionario Mayor, en la lengua Meixcana y Castellana. Compuesto por elmuy reverendo padre Fray Alonso Molina, de la orden del Seraphico Sant Francisco. En mexico. ¶En casa de Pedro Balli. Año de 1578. / Image is from an exemplar held by the Benson Latin American Collection.
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Colophon of the Advertencias (Segunda Parte) The final page of volume two of the Advertencias, from a copy held by the Benson Latin American Collection, Austin, TX. Text is in roman font and divided in three parts, each separated on the page. Third part is the colophon, which reads: Excudebat Ludouicus Ocharte Figueroa, Mexici, in Regio Collegio sancte Crucis, sancti Iacobi de Tlati lulco. Anno Domini 1601. Image is from the copy held by the Benson Latin American Collection in Austin, Texas.
Folio 14 (1) of the Advertencias The first of two folios in the Advertencias to be numbered “14”. This image shows the recto (numbered) side of the page, which begins with the text: “¶Si el penitente quisiere nombrar en la confession al complice del delicti, en ninguna manera lo permita el confessor, por que pecarria gravamente si lo permitiesse, como enseñan Doctores graves. Vease el padre fr. Manuel P. p. sum. c. 53. concl. 8. num. 9.” Image is from an exemplar held by the Benson Latin American Collection.
Final page of the Indulgencias in the Advertencias.
Corrected Index A page from the index of volume two of the Advertencias. As in most copies, in this exemplar, held by the Benson Latin American Collection in Austin, Texas, a correction has been pasted down. The corrected section (folio 3) reads: “Eandem auctoritatem habent Porvinciales Ordinum Mendicantium, & quibus ipso commiserint per Omnimoda Adria. 6. Fratribus Mendicanti b9 concessa. Vide in Elencho. 1. par. ver. Absolucion y absolver. sub sinem."
Additional title page for the Advertencias, Volume Two Additional title page of volume two of the Advertencias features an unusual shield. /Text reads “Advertencias. Para los confessores de los Naturales. ¶Compuestas por el padre Fray Ioan Baptista, de la Orden del Seraphico Padre Sanct Francisco, Lector de Theologia, y Guardian del Convento de Sanctiago Tlatilulco: de la Provincia del Sancto Evangelio. Primera Parte. [This is followed by an image in a rectangular frame. Within the frame is a second, oval frame decorated with scrolls. Within this internal frame is a cross with protrusions perched on a heart pierced by arrows.] Con Privilegio. ¶En Mexico, En el convento de Sanctiago Tlatilulco, Por M. Ocharte. año 1600. / Image represents an exemplar held at the Benson Latin American Collection, Austin, Texas
Dedication Page of the Advertencias (Primera Parte) The first page of the dedicatoria to the Advertencias (Primera Parte). Text is in roman font, with a subtitle in italics and a floral initial “A”. Text reads: DEDICATORIA. ¶ Prologo Dedicatorio del Auctor, a Nuestro Padre Fray Pedro de Pila Commissario General de todas las Provincias y Custodias desta nueva España, Florida y Phil- lippina. &. Aunque por ser estas Advertencias parte del confesionario que a V.P. dedique los días passados, no era necessario dedicarlas de nuevo: Pero porque aviendo començado a imprimirlas (viendo el mal aparejo que para esto avia) las dexava, y reservaba para tiempo mas acomodado, y V. P. con imperio y potestad de Prelado Superior, y amor muy antiguo de vero Padre me mandò e solicitò con toda Facsimile image taken from an exemplar (V1E1) at the Benson Latin American Collection, Austin, TX.
Mismatched catchwords in the Advertencias
Folio 14 (2) of the Advertencias The second of two folios in the Advertencias to be numbered “14”. This image shows the recto (numbered) side of the page, which shows a running header “Los Con|e||ores.” and the number 14 before beginning with the text: “¶El confessor a cuyos pies vinieren Indios 16 de obraje, procure ante todas cosas acabar con los amos y dueños, que les perdonen lo que les han cogido, y apañado de su casa: pues hablando moralmente pocos ay que no hurten algo, en los dichos lugares: y estan casi impossibilitados de poder satisfazer, y con estos podran absolver a sus penitentes. Image is from an exemplar held by the Benson Latin American Collection in Austin, Texas.
Matching catchwords from folio 304 of the Advertencias
Mismatched catchwords from folio 304 of the Advertencias
Pear Thievery in the Advertencias Page from the Advertencias is in roman font, with running header reading “Aduertencias para”. Page discusses the nature of the sin of stealing pears. Text reads: “haga con malicia, y con animo de hacer daño pecca venialmente como dice S. Thomas. 2. secunde. q. 66. art. 6. y Navarro. c. 1. nu. 3. y Covarro. y otros. Porque en todos los preceptos, la poquedad de la cosa, o materia [salvo si ay menosprecio] libra de peccado mortal. La 2. que para saber quando la materia es leve, cuyo hurto es peccado venial, solamente se ha de considerar las circunstancias de las personas, Reynos, Provincias, y lugares, conviene a saber, se la persona a quien se hurta es rica, o pobre. Y asi segun Nava. Soto y la comu, si alguno hurta una cosa pequeña a un pobre, cuya falta le haze gran daño, o le causa grave pena, pecca mortalmente; como si uno hurtasse una Lesna a un çapatero, y unas Peras de un arbol, las quales su señor tenia guardadas para de ellas hazer un presente, como comunmente estos Naturales guardan sus frutillas, para este effecto. Lo. 3. se h de notar lo que dize el padre fr. Luys Lopez 2. p. Instructor ij conscientiae, que los criados que a sus señores hurtan oy un poco, y de aqui a un mes otro poco, y asi inerpolatim per menses, quo libet mese, a liquid modicum, de suerte que en fin de tres o quatro años, se venga a juntar, tanta quanti dad. Image shows folio 14v (second f14) from the copy held by the Benson Latin American Collection in Austin, Texas.
Index without correction A page from the index of volume two of the Advertencias. In most copies, the ninth and tenth lines have been replaced with a pasted-in correction. In this exemplar, held by Tulane University’s Latin American Library in New Orleans, Louisiana, the correction is missing and the original text can be seen. The corrected section (folio 3) reads: “Eandem auctoritatem habent Porvinciales Ordinum Mendicantium, & quibus ipso commiserint per Pauli. 3. Bullam que incipit, Altitudo divine Consilij. Vide in Elencho. 1. par. ver. Absolucion y absolver. sub sinem."
Confessionario breve, en lengua mexicana y castellana Title page: Confessionario breve, en lengua Mexicana y Castellana by Alonso de Molina, printed by Antonio de Espinosa (1565). Printed in red and black, in blackletter. Title on top reads "Confessionario breve, en lengua Mexicana y Castellana: compuesto por el muy reverendo padre fray Alonso de Molina, de la orden del seraphico padre Sant Francisco." Text on bottom reads "En Mexico en casa de Antonio de Espinosa, Imprsr. / 1565". In between is a large square frame that fills most of the page. Text around outside edge in red. Interior shows a a floral wreath and the Franciscan emblem: a shield with five bleeding wounds. From an exemplar held by the John Carter Brown Library in Providence, Rhode Island.
Melchior Ocharte's Confessionario (1599) Title page of the Confessionario en lengua mexicana y castellana. In Roman and Italic fonts, with a shield in the center identical to that of the Advertencias. / Text reads: *Confessionario* en lengua mexicana y castellana. ¶Con muchas advertencias muy necessarias para los Confessores. ¶Compuesto por el Padre Fray Ioan Baptista de la orden del Seraphico Padre Sanct Francisco, lector de Theologia en esta provincia del sancto Evangelio, y guardian del convento de Sanctiago Tlatilulco. [This is followed by a Franciscan shield in a circular, decorative frame. Image is divided in three parts; upper right shows two arms crossed with stigmata.] *Con privilegio* ¶En Sanctiago Tlatilulco, Por Melchior Ocharte. Año de. 1599. / Image from an exemplar held by the Benson Latin American Collection
Juan Pablos' Constituciones del Arzobispado... (1556) Title page of the Constituciones, printed by Juan Pablos in 1556. Page is overtaken by a large rectangular square frame. Inside the frame is an elaborate design featuring rope tassles and ribbons surrounding a shield decorated with animal faces including eagles and goats. The shield, divided in three parts, shows two buildings and a abstract emblem. At the bottom are two nopal cacti and ribbons with the text "PRO XPO LE GA TIO VIE FVVIGIMVR". Beneath the image, the title reads "¶Constituciones del acrobispado y provincia de la muy ynsigne y muy leal ciudad de tenuxtitlã Mexico de la nueva España". Image from an exemplar held by the Benson Latin American Collection in Austin, TX.
Molina Title Page Title page of Molina’s Confessionario Breve, which was printed by Antonio de Espinosa (Mexico’s second printer) in 1565. The decorative title page is printed in black and red in Gothic font. Title text along top reads “Confessionario breve, en lengua Mexicana y Castellana: compuesto por el muy reverendo padre fray Alonso de Molina, de la orden del seraphic padre Sant Francisco.” This is followed by a large shield with red decoration, in a wreath of black and red roses and other decorations. Around the edge, a square frame features text that reads: (clockwise from bottom left) “Accipite Spiritum sanctum, quorum remiseritis peccata: remittuntur wis. Et quorum recin verities, recent sung. Joanis. 20.” bottom reads “En Mexico en casa de Antonio de Espinosa, Imp[re]ssor. 1565." Image is from an exemplar held by the John Carter Brown library.
Matching Catchwords
Manual de Adultos, Juan Pablos, 1540 One of two surviving leaves from the Manual de adultos, the earliest surviving book known to have been printed in Nueva España (printed by Juan Pablos in 1540). The book is in blackletter, with a decorated initial G in black, a red title and black text. Image shows that it is bound in marbled paper. The fragment is currently held by the John Carter Brown Library, where it is bound with Juan de Zumárraga’s Dotrino Breve (1544).
Automatic Transcription Output with Ocular Three versions of the same fragment from the Advertencias: one is a facsimile image of the original page; one is a facsimile image in black in white with language changes marked in red; the final is an automatic transcription of the original page, with language shifts automatically generated. Transcription labels languages correctly on all but one word, and shows few character errors, though it does insert extra spaces in the Nahuatl text. Text reads: “Ay proprio vocablo de logro, que es, tetech-tlaixtlapanaliztli, tetechtlamieccaquixtiliztli, ypara dezir diste alogro? Cuix tetech otitlaix”.
Standard Title Page, Part Two of the Advertencias The standard title page of volume two of the Advertencias. /Text reads “Advertencias. Para los confessores de los Naturales. ¶Compuestas por el padre Fray Ioan Baptista, de la Orden del Seraphico Padre Sanct Francisco, Lector de Theologia, y Guardian del Convento de Sanctiago Tlatilulco: de la Provincia del Sancto Evangelio. Segunda Parte. [This is followed by a Franciscan shield in a circular, decorative frame. Image is divided in three parts; upper right shows two arms crossed with stigmata.] Con Privilegio. ¶En Mexico, En el convento de Sanctiago Tlatilulco, Por M. Ocharte. año 1600. / Image represents an exemplar held at the Biblioteca Palafoxiana, Puebla, MX.
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