Espeio divino en lengua mexicana
Subtitle: en que pueden verse los padres, y tomar documento para acertar a doctrinar bien a sus hijos, y aficionallos alas virtudes
By: Compuesto por el padre F. Ioan de Mijangos, religioso indigeno, y humilde dela Orden del glorioso Padre Augustino, doctor dela Yglesia, y obispo de Yponia. &c
Contributors: León, Nicolás, 1859-1929
Publisher: En la Emprenta de Diego Lopez Daualos
Published: 1607
Place of publication: En Mexico, con licencia
Language: nah; spa
Number of pages: 562
Subjects: Doctrines; Indians of Mexico; Missions; Indian linguistics; Nahuatl language; Languages; Texts; CSAIP; Catholic Church
Notes: Signatures: *⁸ A-4A⁴ chi²

Woodcut ill. of a saint (Saint Francis?), of the Virgin Mary, of Saint Monica on verso of colophon leaf; full p. armorial with the emblem of the order and cardinal's hat on verso of A1; woodcut device of the order on colophon leaf with initials AE; large woodcut floriated initials, head- and tail-pieces.

Title, licenses, Prologo, Soneto del Licenciado Diego Alonso de Chavelas, and Tabla para los predicadores que remite a algunos Evangelios at end in Spanish; text in Nahuatl; side notes in Latin.

Colophon: Acabose de imprimir esta presente obra en la muy noble, y leal Ciudad de Mexico, a veynte y quatro de Iulio, Vispera del Glorioso Apostol Sanctiago Patron de España. Año 1607.

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, II:46.

Medina, J.T.  México, 238.

Viñaza.  Bib. lenguas indigenas de America, 119.

Palau y Dulcet (2. ed.), 168872.

Sabin, 48908.

John Carter Brown Library copy preliminary leaves do not match the description in Medina who does not mention the Soneto and on the verso, the ill. of the Virgin with St. Augustin portrayed in the head-piece.

John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect, lacking t.p., preliminary leaf with licenses of Baltasar de Castañon and Bartolomé de Nava, full page engraving of St. Augustin, colophon leaf with ill. of S. Monica on verso; first 2 leaves of signature * and final two leaves of Tabla de los predicadores have part torn off with loss of text; missing and damaged leaves supplied in photostat in bib. file.

Provenance of John Carter Brown Library copy: Nicolás León : bookplate.