Houghton’s Primeros Libros

The Houghton Library recently digitized several books to be added to the digital library Los Primeros Libros de las Américas: A Digital Library of 16th Century Colonial Mexican Imprints. Starting in 1539 with the first book of the Americas, Breve y mas compediosa doctrina Cristiana en lengua Mexicana y castellana (of which no copies survive), Mexico had rich one hundred year printing history before the first book was printed in Colonial America. Based at Texas A&M University and with the collaboration of several Mexican and Texas libraries, the digital library aims to make more accessible these early printings of the New World.

Houghton contributions to the Primeros Libros digital library include:

Juan de la Cruz, Augustinian. Doctrina christiana en la lengua guasteca co[n] la lengua castellana. En Mexico :En casa de Pedro Ocharte, 1571. *LMC5.J8703.571d

Molina, Alonso de, d. 1585. Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana. En Mexico: En casa de Antonio de Spinosa, 1571. *LMC5.M7334.555vb.

New Spain. Laws, etc. Prouisio[n]es cedulas instruciones desu Magestad. En Mexico : En casa de Pedro Ocharte., M.D.LXIII. [1563] *LMC5.N4205.563p

Ribera Flórez, Dionisio de. Relacion historiada de las exequias funerales de la magestad del rey D. Philippo II. nuestro senor. En Mexico. : En casa de Pedro Balli., Año de 1600. *LMC6.R3555.600r

Zumárraga, Juan de,1468-1548. Dotrina breue muy p[ro]uechosa delas cosas q[ue] p[er]tenecen ala fe catholica y a n[uest]ra cristiandad en estilo llano p[ar]a comu[n] intelige[n]cia. Imp[re]ssa e[n]la misma ciudad d[e] Mexico: Por su ma[n]dado y a su costa., Año d[e] M.dxliij [i.e. 1544.] Typ 100.544

[Thanks to Susan Pyzynski, Associate Librarian for Technical Services, for contributing this post.]