ANUNCIACION — AEA. 33 
Ara {Fr. Domingo de) — continued. 
Fray Alonso de Guzman— traslado esto bocabulario el sobre dicho P" el auo de 
1620. auoa en la proviucia de Tzeldales en el pueblo de Tacium Vitz." Belo-w: 
" Espaiia, seis pesos." L. 221, the last of the vocabulary, has on tlie verso : " Unus 
Deus una fides unuz baptisma," cand beneatli: "Soli Deo honor et gloria." — Bras- 
seur de Bouriourg. 
Beristain mentions one of these: Vocabulario de la Lengua de los Indies de 
Chiapa. 
138 Doctriaa Christiana y explicacion de los principales misterios 
de la fe catholica, espuestos en lengna Tzeldal por el Ilmo seiior D. 
Fray Domingo de Ara, obispo electo de Chiapa, alio de 1560; obra 
trasladada de su original por el padre Fray Jacinto del Castillo, 
alio de 1621. * 
Manuscript, 128 11. fol. In very fine and clear writing, and the best preserved 
of the manuscripts by this author. 
The work is written entirely in Tzeldal, and is divided into chapters or homilies 
without number or sequence. From the beginning to leaf 73, inclusive, they all 
commence with the same verse taken from the Gospel: "Qui crediderit et bapti- 
zatus fuerit, salvas erit." From verso of 1. 73 to verso of 1. 106 the commands of 
God and of the church are treated of. Thence to the end, the works of mercy, 
of capital sins, the unity of the church, and the creation of man. On the reverse 
of 1. 117 the author calls himself "hoon atatomi Fray Domingo de Ara." I, your 
father, etc., words which decide the question of the orthography of his name. 
Further on in the same closing paragraph is given the date — September, 1560 — 
that is to say, twelve years before his death. 
Below follows separately the declaration of the transcriber. Fray Jacinto del 
Costillo, who appears to have finished this copy in the mouth of September, 1621. 
He signs himself with the title of "Visiteur" to the town of San Juan Cancuc. — 
Brasseur de Bourtoufg. 
139 Egregium opus Fratris Dominici de Hara. De comparationi- 
bus et similitudinibus. * 
Manuscript. 140 11. sm.4'^ In the Tzendal language. This is the work par 
excellence of this author whose writings have been almost as much of a mystery 
to bibliograiJhers as the spelling of his name. The writing, which is very fine and 
slender, if not his own, is certainly that of his amanuensis or copyist, for it belongs 
to his epoch, and it is well known that the Spanish monks in America usually 
dictated the works of which they were the authors. The copyist also was ordi- 
narily a young native disciple ; hence the errors and the mistakes in spelling which 
we sometimes find in this class of works. The title-page bears a signature in a 
different handwriting, that'of "Laureca de Ximena," which we find at the end 
of the religious treatises which follow this work, as well as many others. These 
treatises, in the Tzendal language, are : 
140 In festo sanctissimi sacramenti. * 
4 11. 
141 Modus administrandi sacramentum matrimonii, en tzendal. * 
5 11. 
142 Sermo pro disponeudis nubentibus, en tzendal. * 
eil. 
143 Ztitzo ghibal hatezcau zpaz Confession zghoyoc zcan ycli 
Communion Ecuctac. * 
15 11. The volume terminates with the Tzendal Grammar of Domingo de Ara, 
entitled: 
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