Plate LXXIX · Missionary Press
Vol. XI (1953) · full-page plate
(da cd. anastatico a cura di T. F. Meehan, Nueva York 1928)
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Above left: TITLE PAGE OF THE «DOTRINA BREVE» compiled by the first bishop of Mexico Juan Zumarraga and published, as read in the colophon, on 14 June 1544 in the city of Tenochtilan (Mexico). It is the first book printed in Mexico. Above right: TITLE PAGE OF THE DOCTRINA CHRISTIANA en letra y lengua china compuesta por los Padres Ministros de los Sangleyes, de la Orden de S. Domingo, Manila 1593. It is the first book printed in the Philippines - Copy from the Vatican Library. Below left: TITLE PAGE OF THE CONFESSORE ISTRUITO NELLE SANTE LEGGI by Father Master Gerolamo Panormitano O. P., translated into the language of Bosnia by Father Stefano Matenica O. F. M., printed in Rome in 1630. Copy from the Library of the S. Congr. de Propaganda Fide - Rome. Below right: TITLE PAGE OF THE SEPTEM HORÆ CANONICÆ in Arabic, Fano, by the types of Gregorio de Gregoris, 1514. Copy from the Library of the S. Congr. de Propaganda Fide - Rome.