Includes instructions on administering the sacraments and on doctrine.
Notes:
[Alonso de Molina]
T.p. mostly ill., with the legend in red: "Penitentiam agite, appropinaquabit enim regnum c[a]elorum. Matthei. capit. 3."
Added t.p. on leaf 3r, reading: Confessionario mayor, instruction [sic] y doctrina, para el que se quiere bien confessar: compuesto por el reuerendo 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.
Signatures: a-p q
Black letter type, except for "Epistola nuncupatoria" on leaf 2 and the Latin absolution at the bottom of leaf 56v, which are in roman type.
Full page woodcut of crucifixion on t.p.; smaller ones throughout text, primarily of Biblical scenes.
Main text in parallel columns of Nahuatl and Spanish.
Acabose de imprimir este Confessionario, en la muy insigne y gran ciudad de Mexico: en casa de Antonio de Espinosa impressor de libros, junto a la yglesia de señor Sant Augustin: a quinze d mayo. Año.de.1565. -- coloph.
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