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EARLY MEXICAN IMPRINT VERACRUZ, ALONSO DE. Speculum coniugiorum. Large woodcut arms of the dedicatee, Virrey Luis de Velasco, on title; table of
EARLY MEXICAN IMPRINT VERACRUZ, ALONSO DE. Speculum coniugiorum. Large woodcut arms of the dedicatee, Virrey Luis de Velasco, on title; table of consanguinity on page 307. 686, [2] pages, including final blank. Italic type. 4to, 214x152 mm, contemporary limp vellum with remnants of thong ties; some light dampstaining in upper margins, scattered foxing, title lightly soiled, with scored inscription in lower margin; early branded initials "S F" on top edges, presumably the mark of a Mexican Franciscan institution. Mexico City: Juan Pablos, 13 August 1556 (26 December 1550)
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Notes: first edition of the first book on marriage written and published in the New World, also the first book printed in italic type in america, using fonts cut and cast in Pablos's shop by Antonio de Espinosa.
Veracruz (1507-84) was a leading Augustinian missionary and educator. "His best single contribution to the missions of Mexico... is the Speculum coniugiorum, a book on moral theology, and especially the canon laws of matrimony, with the particular and very valuable purpose of providing a guide for solving the complicated cases concerning the newly converted Indians... In the first part... Vera Cruz... gave a complete exposition in sixty articles of the nature of the marriage contract and the impediments to a valid and licit contract... The second part... is more pertinent to the peculiar problems of the missions. In thirty six articles Fray Alonso discusses the nature and validity of marriage among the infidels of the New World and the nature of polygamy... The third part is composed of twenty articles on divorce"--Arthur Ennis, Fray Alonso de la Vera Cruz (1957), pages 67-72. García Icazbalceta 28; Palau 459149.
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