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![Primera parte de los problemas, y secretos marauillosos de las Indias. / Compuesta por el doctor Iuan de Cardenas, medico. Dirigida al illustrissimo Señor Don Luys de Velasco, Virrey d[e]sta nueua España](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN4HBFO3B%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)
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Title vignette: coat of arms. Foliation errors: leaves 144, 152, 156, 170 misnumbered 126, 125, 159, 180. Signatures: [para.]⁸ A-2G⁸ 2H⁶.
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The text is a mixture of sermons, laudatory poetry, epigrams, etc.; side notes in Latin with reference to the Scriptures. Colophon: Con licencia. En Mexico En casa de Pedro Balli. 1600. Foliation errors: leaf 64 misnumbered as 53, 93 as 94, 106 as 116, 125 as 126, and 186 misnumbered as 180. Woodcut coat of arms of the Inquisidor Alonso de Peralta on t.p. verso, historiated and ornamental initials. Signatures: [par.]-2[par.]⁸ A-Z⁸ 2A⁴ 2B⁴ chi² (2A4, chi2 blank). Errata on leaves [5]-[6] at end.
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![Sumario co[m]pe[n]dioso delas que[n]tas de plata y oro q[ue] en los reynos del Piru son necessarias a los mercaderes: : y todo genero de tratantes. Co[n] algunas reglas tocantes al arithmetica. / Fecho por Juan Diez freyle](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN4LBYQ3I%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)
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Woodcut coat of arms on t.p. Signatures: a-n⁸ (n8 blank).
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![Prouisio[n]es cedulas instruciones de su Magestad: : ordena[n]ças d[e] difu[n]tos y audie[n]cia, p[ar]a la buena expedicio[n] de los negocios, y administracio[n] d[e] justicia: y gouernacio[n] d[e]sta Nueua España: y p[ar]a el bue[n] tratamie[n]to y [con]seruacio[n] d[e] los yndios, dende el año 1525. hasta este presente de. 63](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN4C27ZJR%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)
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At head of title: Philippus hispaniarum et indiarum rex. Compiled by Vasco de Puga. Commonly known as the Cedulario de Puga. Colophon: A ho[n]rra y gloria de nuestro Señor Jesu Christo acabose este presente libro en Mexico en casa de Pedro Ocharte, a veynte y tres dias del mes de nouiembre del mill [et] quinientos [et] sesenta y tres años. Esta tassado por el illustrissimo señor do[n] Luys de Uelasco uirrey a real el pliego. Por ma[n]dado de su señoria Antonio de Turcios secretario. Woodcut illustrated title page with a coat of arms in the center of the t.p. and on the verso of leaf 5. Signatures: a-2d⁸ chi². Leaves d4 and 2a4 missigned as c4 and a4 respectively. Leaf t2 not signed. Verso of final leaf blank. Includes index.
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Woodcut device of the Society of Jesus, with initials IHS on t.p. Foliation errors: leaves 21, 67, 69 incorrectly numbered 29, 69, 65 respectively. "Vocabulario breve" begins on verso of leaf 78. Signatures: [A]⁸ B-N⁸. Verso of final leaf blank.
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Text in Spanish and Nahuatl; Psalms are written in Nahuatl. Woodcut vignette on t.p. of Christ on the Cross. Foliation errors: leaf numbers 67, 69, 77, 203, and 212 are incorrectly numbered 57, 59, 72, 103, and 217 respectively. Signatures: pi⁴ A-Z⁸ &⁸ 2A-2E⁸ 2F⁴. Leaf C3 missigned as C, and leaf 2F2 as 2F3.
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