Confessionario mayor, en lengua mexicana y castellana
By: [Alonso de Molina]
Contributors: Espinosa, Antonio de, d. 1578; Franciscans
Publisher: Por Antonio de Espinosa.
Published: 1565
Place of publication: En Mexico
Language: spa; nah
Number of pages: 121
Subjects: Doctrines; Discipline; Missions; Indians of Mexico; Confession; Indian linguistics; Handbooks, manuals; Nahuatl language; Languages; Texts; Sacraments; CSAIP; Catholic Church; Franciscans
Other titles: Confessionario mayor, instruction y doctrina, para el que se quiere bien confessar.
Description: Includes instructions on administering the sacraments and on doctrine.
Notes: 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-p⁸ q⁴

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.

Foliation errors: leaf 56 numbered 65, leaf 78 has numeral 7 upside-down.

Numerous catchword discrepancies and errors.

Includes bibliographical references (in margins, mainly Biblical) and index (leaves 121v-[3])

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, I: 229.

Medina, J.T.  Mexico, 49.

García Icazbalceta, J. Bib. mexicana (1954 ed.), 45.

Sabin 49871.

Palau y Dulcet (2. ed.) 174363.

Viñaza. Bibl. lenguas indígenas, 41.

Ugarte, S. Catálogo, 245.

Valtón, E. Impresos mexicanos, 9.

John Carter Brown Library copy has ms. annotation on t.p.: Martin Cantig Año 1630 nobiem[bre].24. Also has ms. corrections to Nahuatl text on leaves 16v, 21r, 26v, 36r and 56v.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound as no. 2 of 2 with the author's Confessionario breue, Mexico, 1565.

John Carter Brown Library copy has repair to inner margin of leaf 1 with minimal loss of text.