Aqui comiença vn vocabulario enla lengua castellana y mexicana
By: compuesta por el muy reuerendo padre fray Alonso de Molina: guardia[n] d[e]l co[n]ue[n]to d[e] sant Antonio d[e] Tetzcuco d[e]la orde[n] delos frayles Menores
Contributors: León, Nicolás, 1859-1929
Publisher: En casa de Iua[n] Pablos, ...
Published: 1555
Place of publication: Imprimio se e[n] la muy gra[n]de & insigne y muy leal ciudad de Mexico
Language: spa; nah
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: Nahuatl; Spanish; Dictionaries; Indian linguistics; Spanish language; Nahuatl language
Notes: In Spanish and Nahuatl.

Imprint from colophon.

Two states of this work exist: one with decorative initials for letters A, B, and C; and the other without.

Signatures: a⁸ A⁸ B-Z⁴ &⁴ 2A-2Z⁴ 2&⁴ 2[cross]⁴ ²a-p⁴ (p4 verso blank)

Title in red and black, title vignette (port.), initials.

"Tassado por el Audie[n]cia Real en dos pesos y vn nomin [i.e. tomín]"--slip pasted on bottom of title page.

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, I:p. 188.

Medina, J.T. México, 24.

Palau y Dulcet (2. ed.), 174351.

John Carter Brown Library copy 1 imperfect: It has leaf [8] (first count) of woodcuts. Has book branding marks on upper, outer, and lower edges.  Foxed and waterstained.  Leaf 30 has burn marks and a hole; leaf 144 torn; ink stains on leaf 186 verso and leaf 187 recto; ms. scribbling on leaf 204 verso. Bound in contemporary leather.

Provenance of John Carter Brown Library copy 1: Nicolás León: bookplate.

John Carter Brown Library copy 2 imperfect: leaves [1-7] (first count) and all after leaf 244 in facsimile; leaf [8] (first count) of woodcuts lacking; excessively trimmed, especially the bottom margin (text affected); leaves 130-151 apparently worm eated and mended (text affected)

John Carter Brown Library copies 1 and 2 lack decorative initials for letters A, B, and C.

John Carter Brown Library also has a copy of the facsimile leaves in copy 2 bound separately (facsim. B555 M722a). For further information see bib file #06586.