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(MEXICO—1566.) Ledesma, Bartholomé de.
De
septem novae legis sacramentis summarium.
[4], 404,
[16] pages. 4to, contemporary vellum, worn, sticker remnant
on backstrip, recased; several small holes on title page with
crude repairs on verso, other repairs to the first few and last
few leaves, edges tinted purple with slight bleed into
margins, intermittent dampstaining, extensive early
annotations throughout, inserted manuscript leaves preceding
the title page and leaf 173; several early inscriptions on title
page, inked library stamps on title and leaf 269,
bookplate remnant on front pastedown.
México: Antonio de Espinosa, 1566
[40,000/60,000]
FIRST EDITION
.
Ledesma was an influential figure as the
right-hand man to Archbishop Montúfar and chair of theology at
the University of Mexico. During this period he was
actively investigating México’s booksellers and private libraries,
consigning many volumes to the bonfire and threatening
the bookseller Alonso de Castilla with imprisonment for stocking
forbidden titles (see Lundberg, Unification and Conflict, pages
101-5). He later became Bishop of Oaxaca. This treatise explains
seven sacraments for use in the Mexican church. It was later
reprinted in Salamanca in 1585.
This book was produced by Antonio de Espinosa, who was just
the second printer in the New World and “the man who brought
printing in Mexico to maturity” (Woodbridge, page 13).
Decorative features in this volume include an engraved title page, a
colophon preceding the index, and consanguinity diagrams on
leaves 352, 362, and 373, one of them showing descent from
Adam and Eve. García Icazbalceta 1886, 47; Medina, México
50; Palau 134124; Sabin 39677.
Or(checked).