Text in Spanish, Quechua, and Aymara.

Backer-Sommervogel attributes authorship to José de Acosta and Juan de Atienza.

Signatures: [par.]p8s 2A-3Cp8s 3Dp8s (-3D8) (2B3, 2G3, 2K5 missigned 2A3, HG3, 2K6)

Numerous errors in foliation.

In some copies leaf 2N6 is a cancel.

Title page vignette (Jesuit trigram); initials, printer's devices.

Errata statement: leaf [1] verso (1st count)

Includes index (leaves 4-7

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, I:303.

Backer-Sommervogel I, col. 34.

Sabin 94838.

Medina, J.T. Lima, 3.

Vargas Ugarte, R. Bib. peruana, 3.

Provenance of John Carter Brown Library copy 1: Luis Montt: bookplate.

John Carter Brown Library copy 1 (BA584 C361d) item three of three items bound together, beginning with: Doctrina Christiana / Catholic Church. Province of Lima. Concilio Provincial (Lima, 1584). Lacks leaves 8 and 73. Preliminaries bound in different order than that given in Medina. This copy has the cancel leaf. Has holographic signature of Joseph de Acosta on title page, and a ms. annotation on the verso of the last leaf, indicating that this work was checked out by a prior general (order not specified) from that order's retreat house in Chuquisaca (modern day Sucre, Bolivia) on March 20, 1789.

John Carter Brown Library copy 2 (BA585 C361t) without the cancel. Preliminaries bound in different order than that given in Medina. "Concuerda con el original" and signature of Joseph de Acosta on title page. Leaf 2G3 signed correctly.