Peru.- Indulgences.- Carta de confraternidad, o, Escritura de filiacion especial, que deberan suscribir los devotos de Maria Santisima al tiempo de alistarse en la religiosa Hermandad del título de Nra. Sra. de la Misericordia, bifolium confraternity membership certificate, woodcut portrait of the Virgin at head, ms. insertions and signatures registering Manuela Villaverde in March, 1817, folds, a few spots, but generally in a very good state of preservation, 4to, Lima, Royal Printers, [c.1817].

⁂ Rare, with WorldCat recording two copies only (Both Santiago, Chile). During the second half of the sixteenth century, following the Tridentine reforms, confraternities began to flourish in New Spain and Peru. They promoted the idea of purgatory and the notion of remission through indulgences.