Signatures: leaves 1-2 signed [cross] - [cross]ii, leaf 3 signed [cross]

Caption title. At head of title: Bulla.

"Fue impressa e[n] la ciudad de Mexico e[n] casa de Pedro Ocharte por ma[n]dado del yllustrissimo y reuere[n]dissimo señor don fray Alonso de Montufar, arçobispo de la dicha ciudad. Meritissimo." -- coloph.

Place of publication and printer from colophon.

Undated. Date range based on the date of the 2nd bull (1564) and the death of Montúfar (1565). Icazbalceta proposed a date of 1565 to coincide with the 2nd Council of Mexico, convened to deal with matters from the Council of Trent.

Roman type, apart from names in Gothic on p. [4]; historiated initials.

The copy described in Icazbalceta was incomplete, wanting p. [17-18]

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, I:230.

García Icazbalceta, J. Bib. mexicana (1954 ed.), 46.

Sabin 63165.

Medina, J.T. Mexico, 200s.

Palau y Dulcet (2. ed.) 37006.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy 1 (BA564 C363b): "Ex musaeo Huthii" : bookplate.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy 2 (BA564 C855c): José Fernando Ramírez : acquisition record.

John Carter Brown Library copy 2 is the incomplete copy described in Icazbalceta. This is bound as no. 2 of 2 with: Canones et decreta, sacrosancti oecumenici, & generalis concilij Tridentini (Salamanca, 1564)