Thesoro spiritual en lengua de Mechuaca[n]
Subtitle: en el q[ua]l se contiene la doctrina [chr]istiana y or[aci]ones p[ar]a cada dia, y el exame[n] d[e] la co[n]cie[n]cia, y d[e]claracio[n] d[e] la missa
By: co[m]puesto por el R.P. fray Maturino Gilberti, de la orde[n] del seraphico padre Sant Francisco
Contributors: Pablos, Juan, d. 1561?; León, Nicolás, 1859-1929
Publisher: Juan Pablos]
Published: 1558
Place of publication: [Mexico City
Language: cai
Number of pages: 127
Subjects: Languages; Prayers and devotions; Tarascan Devotional literature; Confession; Tarascan; Handbooks, manuals; Indian linguistics; Tarascan language; Lord's Supper; Texts; Indians of Mexico; CSAIP; Tarascan Catechisms; Catholic Church; Catechisms
Other titles: Thesoro spiritual en lengua de Mechuacan.
Notes: Signatures: a-p⁸ ²p⁸ r-s⁸ t⁴ (-t4) (k1 signed upside down)

Printer from colophon.

At head of title is the coat-of-arms of Alonso de Montúfar, Bishop of Mexico, with the motto: Pro Chr[ist]o legatione fungimur.

Text in Tarascan, with running titles and scattered headings in Spanish.

Leaves 1-40 not numbered. Foliation errors: number 62 repeated, 92 and 99 misprinted as 95 and 90 respectively, number 104 skipped, leaves 125 and 126 not numbered.

Roman type, 39 lines per page. Small woodcut illustrations at beginning of many sections.

Medina, J.T.  Mexico, 35.

García Icazbalceta, J. Bib. mexicana (1954 ed.), 33.

Palau y Dulcet (2. ed.) 102193.

Viñaza. Bibl. lenguas indígenas, 25.

Millares Carlo, A. Juan Pablos, 31.

Ugarte, S. Catálogo, 168.

John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: wanting leaves [1-9], [16-19], [23-25], [27], [32], 41-42, 47-48, 105, 112, 117-118, 121, 124-125, and [1-20] at end. Title page supplied in facsimile.

John Carter Brown Library copy in contemporary vellum binding.

John Carter Brown Library copy has: Nicolás León: bookplate.

John Carter Brown Library copy heavily foxed. Ms. numbers (incorrect) added to unnumbered and already numbered leaves.
Table of contents: title: Doctrina christiana en lengua de Mechuacán, leaves [13v]-48; title: Examinatorio mayor de la co[n]scie[n]cia..., leaves 49-116; title: Exame[n] peq[ue]ño de la conf[esion]..., leaves 117-124; title: Declaracion de los misterios de la missa y de los prouechos de oyrla con devocion, leaves 125-[20r] at end.