From the t.p.: Donde trata de las virtudes esclarecidas de su Magestad, y transito felicissimo: declarando las figuras, letras, hierogliphicos, empresas, y diuisas, que en el Tumulo se pusieron, como persona que lo adorno y compuso, con la inuencio[n] y traça del apparato sumptuoso con que se vistio desde su planta hasta su fenecimie[n]to.

Errors in foliation, leaf 186 numbered 180.

Signatures: [par.]-2[par.] A-Z 2A (-2A4) 2B (-2B4) chi² (chi2 verso blank)

The text is a mixture of sermons, laudatory poetry, epigrams, etc.; side notes in Latin with reference to the Scriptures. Medina, Mexico, refers to it as one of the most interesting texts printed in 16th cent. Mexico.

Colophon on leaf 187 verso: Con licencia. En Mexico En casa de Pedro Balli. 1600.

Woodcut coat of arms of the Inquisidor Alonso de Peralta on t.p. verso, historiated and ornamental initials.

Errata on leaves chi1-chi2 at end.

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, II:8.

Medina, J.T. México, 171.

Palau y Dulcet (2. ed.), 267016.

Sabin, 69224.

Leaf 187 (2A3?) misbound at end of volume; catch word on leaf [186] verso (missigned 180), matches the first word on 187 recto. Leaves for signatures 2A and 2B are not signed in a sequence that corresponds with a logical continuation of the text.

Provenance of John Carter Brown Library copy: Nicolás León : bookplate.