52 NORTH AMERICAN LINGUISTICS. 
Baptista {Fr. Juan) — coutiuued. 
biduria, y excelente | Doctriua, llamo Archa Testa- | menti. | 1| Com- 
puesta en lengaa Mexicana por el Pa- | dre Fray loan Baptista 
Lector de Theo | logia, y Guardian de Tlacuj)an. | fl Dirigida a 
Aluaro Rodriguez de Aze- | uedo, Sindico de la orde de S. Fraco. | 
[Picture.] 
En Mexico. | Con licencia, en casa de Diego Lopez Daualos. | Ano 
de 1605. * 
9 p. 11. ; 11. 1-95 ; reverse of 95 and following leaf Table of headings, which is 
not finished, owing to some missing leaves, npon which was also the beginning 
of another alphabetic table, of which there are 4 11. remaining, followed by 1 1. 
corrections. 8°. Roman letter. 
Colophon : 
11 Acabose este libro en la muy noble y muy leal ciudad de Me- 
xico Tenochtitlan, Vispera de la Inuencion de la Cruz. Alio de 1605. 
En casa de Diego Lopez Daualos. 
Title communicated by Sr. Icazbalceta. The work is in possession of Sr. D. ,1. 
M. de Agreda. 
235 A lesu Christo S. N. ofrece este Sermonario en lengua Mexi- 
cana. f Su indigno sieruo Fr. loan Baptista de la Orden del Serapbico 
Padre sanct Francisco, de la Provincia del Sancto Euangelio. Pri- 
mera Parte. [An engraving, with a vignette of the Savior, and on 
the margin this legend: Ego svn Veritas.] Dico ego opera mea Eegi. 
Psalm 44. 
En Mexico, con licencia. ^ En casa de Diego Lopez Daualos : y a 
su costa. ABo 1606. Vendese en la tienda de Pedro Arias Librero, 
en frente de la puerta del Perdon de la Yglesia Mayor de Mexico. 
26 p. 11. ; pp. 1-710. On the latter a picture of St. Anthony, with this inscrip- 
tion : 
Acabose de imprimir esta Priraera Parte, en la muy insigne y muy 
leal ciudad de Mexico Tenochtitlan, ^. treize dias del mes de lunio, 
deste aiio, dia del bieuaventurado, y glorioso Sanct Antonio de Pa- 
dua, de la Orden del Sei'aphico Padre Sanct Francisco. 
1" En casa de Diego Lopez Daualos, y a su costa. 1606. 
Concludes with 24 11., tables, not numbered, and at the end: 
Acabaronse de impiimir estas tres Tablas, a nueue dias del mes 
de Febrero, de 1607. * 
Only the first part of this collection of Sermons was published. In the preface 
is to be found some interesting notices principally concerning the early writers 
in the Mexican language. — Icazbalceta's Apmites. 
The author gives an interesting list of sixteen works which he had published, 
only two or three of which are now known to exist. He also refers to a second 
liart of these sermons, of which he had already printed "gran pedafo," but which 
was probably never completed. — Bamirez Sale Cat. 
236 Sermoues para todo el aiio en Lengua Mexicano. Pero Solo 
se imj)rimi6 el i^rimero en Mexico, Aiio 1609. * 
3 vols. 4°. This work, according to the testimony of P. Jesuita Tobar, grand 
master of the Mexican Idiom, has no equal either in purity of style or substance 
of Doctrine. — Beristain. 
