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Confessionario mayor, en la lengna [sic] mexicana y castellana. Compuesto por el muy Reuerendo padre Fray Alonso de Molina, de la orden del Seraphico sant Francisco.
Mexico: Pedro Balli, 1578
Physical Description: 132, [4] leaves : ill. ; 20 cm. (4to in 8s)
Call number: BA578/ M722c
Accession number: 06662
Notes: Preliminaries in Spanish; main text in double columns of Nahuatl and Spanish, set in black letter type. Includes index.
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 Alonso de Molina de la orden de señor sant Francisco, traduzido y buelto en la lengua de los Nauas, por el mismo auctor”.
Originally published Mexico, 1565. Viñaza lists the title as “Confessionario mayor, en lengua Mexicana”, without the typesetter’s error, which may possibly reflect a variant. JCB copy has insect damage with some loss of text.
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Languages: Nahuatl
Genre: Catechisms and Creeds
Region: Spanish America
