Binding: Limp vellum with 4 stitches visible on the outside. Pastedowns: printed material in Spanish and Latin. Flyeaves: thin white paper with fleur-de-lis watermarks. Other decoration, ff. 1-18v: On f. 1v: painted gold initial on red background, with gold foliage. Strapwork on capital letters throughout. Number of scribes, ff. 1-18v: 1. Script, ff. 1-18v: Gothic. Music, ff. 1-18v: Red 5 line staves with square black notes. Layout, ff. 1-18v: 5 lines of text and music. Watermarks, ff. 1-18v: None on manuscript itself (fleur-de-lis watermark on flyleaves).
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Bibliography: Manuel Ramos Medina. Imagen de Santidad en un Mundo Profano Mexcio, DF: Universidad Iberoamericana, 1990, p. 91, discussing the high regard the viceroys of Mexico held for the prioress, Bernarda de San Juan, under whose direction this book was made. ff. 1-18v: Manuscript dated 1645 on f. 1r. Folio 16 is a printed page, 300 x 215mm, containing a mass for St. Joseph: "Romae, Ex Typographia Reverendae Camerae Apost. M. DC. LXXX [on the following line:] Superiorum Permissu, Mexici, apud Ioannem de Ribera. Anno 1681." ff. 1-18v: Latin. ff. 1r-15v, f. 16r-v (printed), f. 17 r-v: Feasts included: St. Elijah the Leader and Our Father, St. Teresa the Virgin (of Avila), and St. Joseph the Confessor.
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