Aduertencias. Para los confessores de los Naturales
By: Compuestas por el padre fray Ioan Baptista, de la Orden del seraphico padre Sanct Francisco, ..
Publisher: Enel Conuento de Sanctiago Tlatilulco; Por M. Ocharte
Published: 1600
Place of publication: En Mexico
Language: lat; spa; nah
Subjects: Missions; Franciscans; CSAIP; Catholic Church; Confession; Indian linguistics; Handbooks, manuals; Nahuatl language
Notes: Foliation: pt. 1: [16], 14, 14-112, [58] leaves; pt. 2: [1], 113-272, 272-443, 104 leaves.

Text mostly in Latin, Spanish, some sections in Nahuatl.

Signatures: pt. 1: [A]⁸ *⁴ pi⁴ B⁸ C⁸ chi1 D-P⁸ *² A-G⁸; pt. 2: pi1 Q-2Z⁸ [par.]⁸ [par.*]-[par.4*]⁸ [par.sec.]-[par.5sec.]⁸ [par.5sec.]⁴ A-N⁸

Includes index.

"Indulgencias concedidas por diversos pontifices alos que se ocupan con los naturales," signature pi⁴ pt. 1, has final Indulgencia dated 1603 and is a later insert.

In pt. 1 leaf no. 14 repeated for insert chi1 in signature C⁸ with additional text for sections 16-19.

Errata in pt. 1: 2 unsigned leaves inserted between P8 and the Tabla; in some copies the errata are on 2 leaves signed * (the shorter errata); leaf *2 verso has decorative tail-piece lacking on the unsigned leaves. See Icazbalceta's comments (p. 467) on this and many other dissimilarities found in copies of pt. 1.

Many errors in foliation.

Colophon of pt. 2: Excudebat Ludouicus Ocharte Figueroa, Mexici, in Regio Collegio sancte Crucis, sancti Iacobi de Tlatilulco. Anno Domini 1601.

T.p. woodcut device of the Franciscan Order, woodcut of hands of St. Francis with the stigmata on verso of *4 (first group), repeated on verso of *8; decorative initials.

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, I:1335.

Medina, J.T. México, 163.

Garcia Icazbalceta, J.  Bib. mexicana (1954 ed.), 179.

Sabin, 3993.

John Carter Brown Library has 4 copies of pt. 1, 2 copies of pt. 2.

John Carter Brown Library copy 1 has pts. 1 and 2 in 1 vol. (BA600 J91a); pt. 1 has signature pi⁴ with the Sumario de Indulgencias not found in the other copies, the inserted leaf chi1 numbered 14, and the shorter errata with tail-piece at end.

John Brown Library copy 2 has pt. 1 only (BA600 J91a1); it lacks preliminary leaves signatures *⁴ and pi⁴ with the Indulgencias and leaf no. 14 (chi1); it has the shorter errata with tail-piece.

John Carter Brown Library copy 3 has pt. 2 only (BA600 J91a2); it has preliminary leaves signatures [A]⁸ and *⁴ (as in pt. 1) but lacks signature pi⁴ with the Indulgencias.

John Carter Brown Library copies 4 and 5 (BA599 J91c copies 1-2) are bound with: Juan Bautista, fray, 1555-ca. 1613. Confessionario en lengua mexicana y castellana. En Sanctiago Tlatilulco, Por Melchior Ocharte, Año de 1599. Bound together subsequent to publication.

John Carter Brown Library copies 4 and 5 (BA599 J91c cop. 1-2) lack preliminary leaves signatures *⁴ and pi⁴ and have leaf no. 14 (chi1) inserted in signature C; copy 4 has the longer errata without tail-piece at end, copy 5 the shorter version.

John Carter Brown Library copy 1 in original limp vellum binding, remnant of ties, inked spine.

John Carter Brown Library copy 3 in original limp vellum binding, remnant of ties.