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Book/Printed Material A Sequence of Twenty-Six Additions to the Admonitions. Siguense veynte y seis addiciones desta postilla

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Title

  • A Sequence of Twenty-Six Additions to the Admonitions.

Other Title

  • Siguense veynte y seis addiciones desta postilla

Summary

  • Fray Bernardino de Sahagún was a Franciscan missionary who arrived in Mexico from Spain in 1529 and stayed until his death in 1590. He worked with the indigenous peoples of the area to document their cultures and religions, in large part motivated by the conviction that better understanding of their beliefs and practices would improve the efforts to convert them to Christianity. His methods have led some scholars to consider him the first ethnohistorian, and he is remembered today as much for his ethnographic and linguistic documentation of the Nahua peoples and Aztec civilization as for his missionary work. This manuscript is a key primary source for understanding Sahagún's interpretation of Christianity for his Nahua audience. It contains a bilingual text of the "Addiciones," additions written by Sahagún to supplement the "Postilla," or scriptural commentaries, used in missionary work among the Aztecs and Nahua. The additions explain the three Christian virtues of faith, hope, and charity, with charity receiving the longest treatment. The final three chapters describe the punishments of hell; the rewards of virtue in the glories of heaven; and death and the Day of Judgment. There is also a fragment of text containing tenonotzaliztli (moral and doctrinal admonitions) condemning native rituals. An appendix copied by one of Sahagún's scribes, Alonso Vegerano, also condemns Indian religious beliefs, with special emphasis on the role of the devil in Indian life.

Names

  • Sahagún, Bernardino de, 1499-1590 Author.
  • Vegerano, Alonso Scribe.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1560 to 1579]

Headings

  • -  Mexico
  • -  1560 to 1579
  • -  Aztecs
  • -  Bible--Commentaries
  • -  Catholic Church
  • -  Franciscans
  • -  Indians of Mexico
  • -  Indigenous peoples
  • -  Missionaries
  • -  Nahua Indians
  • -  Rituals

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  "Description presented here is derived from Scott M. Stevens, entry 17 in The Newberry 125: Stories of Our Collection (Chicago: Newberry Library, 2012), 53; J.F. Schwaller, Guide to Nahuatl Language Manuscripts Held in United States Repositories (Berkeley: Academy of American Franciscan History, 2001), 3-19.|Shelfmark: Ayer MS 1486"--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
  • -  Original resource extent: 90 pages ; 31 centimeters.
  • -  Reference extracted from World Digital Library: J.F. Schwaller, Guide to Nahuatl Language Manuscripts Held in United States Repositories (Berkeley: Academy of American Franciscan History, 2001).|Scott M. Stevens, entry 17 in The Newberry 125: Stories of Our Collection (Chicago: Newberry Library, 2012).
  • -  Original resource at: The Newberry Library.
  • -  Content in Latin and Classical Nahuatl and Spanish.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021668113

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Chicago citation style:

Sahagún, Bernardino De, Author, and Alonso Scribe Vegerano. A Sequence of Twenty-Six Additions to the Admonitions. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1579, 1560] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021668113/.

APA citation style:

Sahagún, B. D. & Vegerano, A. S. (1560) A Sequence of Twenty-Six Additions to the Admonitions. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1579] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021668113/.

MLA citation style:

Sahagún, Bernardino De, Author, and Alonso Scribe Vegerano. A Sequence of Twenty-Six Additions to the Admonitions. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1579, 1560] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021668113/>.