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PÉREZ BOCANEGRA (JUAN) Ritual formulario, Lima, 1631
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PÉREZ BOCANEGRA (JUAN)
Ritual formulario, text in Spanish and Quechua, woodcut coat-of-arms on title-page, full-page woodcut arms on verso of b4, printed music with Quechua letterpress on pp.708-709, lacking folding woodcut plate, margins of title and of first three leaves repaired with archival paper, small wormholes occasionally touching text, light toning and spotting, contemporary limp vellum, soiled, repaired, modern ties, new endpapers [Palau 219847; Sabin 6096], 4to, Lima, Geronymo de Contreras, iunto al Conuento de santo Domingo, 1631
Footnotes
THE EARLIEST POLYPHONIC VOCAL WORK PRINTED IN THE NEW WORLD. Juan Pérez de Bocanegra (d. 1635), a Franciscan priest in the Indian village of Andahuaylillas and examiner general for the native languages Quechua and Aymara for the Diocese of Cusco, composed this is a handbook for administering the holy sacraments to the native population. It contains liturgical texts in the Indian languages of Quechua and Aymara, including a hymn to the Virgin Mary in Quechua, titled Hanacpachap cussicuinin, with traditional Western style notation.