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Molina, Alonso de, d. 1585.

Confessionario mayor, en lengua mexicana y castellana.

Mexico: Antonio de Espinosa, 1565

Physical Description: 121, [3] leaves : ill. (woodcuts) ; 20 cm. (4to in 8s)

Call number: BA565/ M722c

Accession number: 02173-2

Notes: Preliminaries in Spanish; main text in parallel columns of Nahuatl and Spanish, set in black letter type. Additional t.p. (leaf [3r]), reading: “Confessionario mayor, instruction [sic] y doctrina, para el que se quiere bien confessar: compuest por el reverendo padre fray Alo[n]so de Molina de la orden de señor sant Francisco: traduzido y buelto en la lengua de los Nauas, por el mismo autor”.

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JCB copy bound as second of 2 items with the author's Confessionario breue, Mexico, 1565.

Languages: Nahuatl

Genre: Catechisms and Creeds

Region: Spanish America