Confessionario mayor, en la lengna [sic] mexicana y castellana
By: Compuesto por el muy Reuerendo padre Fray Alonso de Molina, de la orden del Seraphico sant Francisco
Publisher: En casa de Pedro Balli
Published: 1578
Place of publication: En Mexico
Language: spa
Number of pages: 132
Subjects: Doctrines; Indians of Mexico; Missions; Confession; Indian linguistics; Handbooks, manuals; Nahuatl language; Languages; Texts; CSAIP; Catholic Church; Franciscans
Other titles: Confessionario mayor, en la lengua mexicana y castellana.
Notes: Caption title on leaf A3r: Confessionario mayor, instruction y doctrina para el que se quiere bien confessar, ... traduzido y buelto en la lengua de los Nauas, por el mismo auctor.

Signatures: A-R⁸

Text in double columns of Nahuatl and Spanish, in black letter type; the "Epistola nuncupatoria" (leaf A2r and v) in roman type.

Title in woodcut architectural border with figures of Adam and Eve; woodcut historiated and ornamental initials; woodcut ill. in text on leaves [3]r, 28, 29; printer's device with motto "Sola virtus potest vitium sub Tartaram mittere" on final leaf [R8]r.

Side notes with references to church fathers, Bible, etc.

Originally published: Mexico, 1565.

Includes index.

Viñaza lists the title without the typesetter's error "Confessionariomayor, en lengua Mexicana" which may possibly reflect a variant.

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, I:916.

Medina, J.T.  México, 86.

Viñaza.  Bib. lenguas indigenas de America, 67.

Sabin 49873.

Palau y Dulcet (2. ed.), 174364.

John Carter Brown Library copy has early manuscript notes on t.p. (illegible) and in margins of several leaves.

John Carter Brown Library copy has paper repair to t.p. with partial loss of architectural border and insect damage throughout with some loss of text.