Rev. Patris Fr. Alphonsi a Vera Cruce Hispani ordinis eremitarum S. Augustini ... Speculum coniugiorum : cum Appendice ... nunc primum in Italia Typis excusum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alonso de la Vera Cruz, fray, approximately 1507-1584.

Contributor:

Ponte, Pacifico da, printer.

Henry Charles Lea Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Speculum coniugiorum

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Marriage--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.

Marriage.

Marriage (Canon law).

Indians of Mexico--Marriage customs and rites.

Indians of Mexico.

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered pages, 372 pages, 32 unnumbered pages, 88 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm (4to)

Place of Publication:

Mediolani : Ex officina typographica quon. Pacifici Pontij, MDXCIX [1599]

Notes:

Two parts (main text and appendix) issued together. Originally published separately: Mexico City, 1556 (main text); Madrid, 1571 (appendix).

Title page of appendix reads: Appendix ad Speculum coniugiorum per eundem fratrem Alphonsum à Vera Cruce, ordinis eremitarum Sancti Augustini, sacrae paginae doctorem, & cathedraticum primarium, vniuersitatis Mexicanae in Nouo Orbe. Iuxta definita in sacro vniuersali Concilio Tridentino, circa matrimonia clandestina. Mediolani, ex officina typographica quon. Pacifici Pontij. M. D. XCIX.

Signatures: *⁶ A-2C⁴ 2D-2O⁸ 2P⁶ [Maltese cross]⁴, ²A-²L⁴.

Leaf N1 signed "M"; leaf P2 signed "O2"; leaf 2B1 signed "B".

Numerous errors in pagination.

Vignette on title pages.

Main text in double columns.

Appendix contains discussion of problems concerning marriage laws that had become important because of the decisions of the Council of Trent on clandestine marriages. At the end three papal bulls issued by Leo X, Hadrian VI and Pius V are included, granting special privileges to the missionary orders in America.

Includes index.

Cited in:

Alden, J. European Americana, 599/9

Medina, J.T. Bib. hispano-americana, 403

Palau y Dulcet (2. ed.) 359153

BM STC Italian p. 20

OCLC:

80302406