Confessionario en lengua mexicana y castellana
Subtitle: Con muchas aduertencias muy necessarias para los Confessores
By: Compuesto por el Padre Fray Ioan Baptista de la orden del Seraphico Padre Sanct Francisco..
Publisher: Por Melchior Ocharte
Published: 1599
Place of publication: En Sanctiago Tlatilulco
Language: spa; nah
Number of pages: 112
Subjects: Texts; Franciscans; CSAIP; Catholic Church; Confession; Indian linguistics; Handbooks, manuals; Nahuatl language
Notes: Signatures: A-B⁸ A-O⁸ A²

Text in Nahuatl; licenses, Prologo, other preliminary matter, and Tabla in Spanish.

T.p. woodcut device of the Franciscan Order, on verso woodcut ill. of penitent at confession, repeated on leaf 40 recto, woodcut device on leaf 102 recto and at end of Tabla.

Errata 2 final leaves at end: "Erratas que se deuen corregir en algunos cuerpos desta obra" correspond to Medina's "tirada A," see Medina, no. 152.

Includes index.

Numerous errors in foliation.

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, I:1165.

García Icazbalceta, J.  Bib. mexicana (1954 ed.), 159.

Wagner, H.R.  Bib. mexicana, 114.

Medina, J.T.  México, 152.

John Carter Brown Library has 4 copies; copies 1 and 2 bound with: Juan Bautista, fray, 1555-1613. Aduertencias. Para los confessores de los Naturales. Primera parte. En Mexico, Enel Convento de Sanctiago Tlatilulco : Por. M. Ocharte. Año 1600. Bound together subsequent to publication.

John Carter Brown Library copies 1 and 2 have the 2 errata leaves at end as described by Medina "tirada A". Errata lacking in copy 3; in copy 4 as described by Medina "tirada B."

John Carter Brown Library copy 2 has signature A substitute leaves from another copy laid in; signature (*)⁴ with Licencia and Approbacion that belongs in Advertencias Primera-Segunda parte, bound in after signature B (first group). T.p. repaired, with loss of text. Bound in original limp vellum, with ties, endpapers with printed music scores for the lamentations of the prophet Jeremiah (printer's waste)

John Carter Brown Library copy 4 has notes about errata on front fly-leaf tipped in; marginalia throughout.