Doctrina [Christ]iana breue y co[m]pendiosa por via de dialogo entre vn maestro y vn discipulo
Subtitle: sacada en le[n]gua castellana y mexicana
By: y co[m]puesta por el muy reuerendo padre fray Domingo de la Anunciacion, vicario q[ue] al presente es de Cuyoacan, de la Orden del bien auenturado padre S[an]cto Domingo
Contributors: Ocharte, Pedro, ca. 1532-1592; Montúfar, Alonso de, fl. 1512-1570; Montes Arguelles, Manuel; Dominicans; Astor Library; New York Public Library
Publisher: En casa de Pedro Ocharte
Published: 1565
Place of publication: En Mexico
Language: spa; nah
Number of pages: 84
Subjects: Indians of Mexico; Missions; Spanish; Indian linguistics; Nahuatl language; Languages; Texts; Spanish Catechisms; Church history; Dominicans; CSAIP; Catholic Church; Catechisms
Other titles: Doctrina [Christ]iana en lengua Española y Mexicana.; Doctrina Christiana breve y compendiosa por via de dialogo.; Doctrina xpiana breue y copendiosa por via de dialogo.
Notes: Signatures: a-d⁸ e⁸(± e3-6) f-k⁸ ¹⁴

"A gloria y alaba[n]ça de n[uest]ro rede[m]ptor Jesu [Christ]o y de su bendita Madre y p[ar]a vtilidad y prouecho de las al[m]as, aq[ui] se acaba la declaracion breue y co[m]pe[n]diosa de la doctrina [Christ]iana e[n] le[n]gua Española y Mexicana, sentencia por sente[n]cia, fue ympressa en esta muy leal ciudad d[e] Mexico en casa d[e] Pedre Ocharte por ma[n]dado d[e]l yllustrissimo y reuere[n]dissimo señor do[n] fray Alo[n]so d[e] Mo[n]tufar, Arçobispo d[e] la dicha ciudad meritissimo acabose a 15. dias d[e]l mes d[e] março. 1565 años." -- coloph.

T.p. has cut of St. Dominic surrounded by ornamental border, with the legend: "Nos aute[m] predicamus D[omin]um Jesus Christu et hunc crucifixum. 1. Cor.1.c." Above colophon, there is a cut of Madonna and Child enthroned upon an altar before several figures, with the legend: "Ego Mater pulchre dilectio[n]is et timoris [et] agnitio[n]is et sancte spei." Also has coats of arms of the Archbishop Montúfar (t.p. verso) and King Philip II (leaf 84 verso)

Gothic type (except for the prologue on leaf 2 in Roman type), with ornamented and historiated capitals. Lacks catchwords.

Prologue with dedication to Archbishop Montúfar (leaf 2) and colophon (leaf 83 verso) in Spanish; main text in parallel columns of Spanish and Nahuatl. License to print on leaf 84 recto dated Oct. 25, 1564.

Includes two Scriptural references in prologue.

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, 228.

Medina, J.T.  Mexico, 47.

Sabin 20563.

García Icazbalceta, J. Bib. mexicana (1954 ed.), 46.

Palau y Dulcet (2. ed.) 13492.

Viñaza. Bibl. lenguas indígenas, 40.

John Carter Brown Library copy has: Don Manuel Montes Arguelles : bookplate.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired from the Astor Library, New York Public Library: acquisition record. The ink stamp for "Astor Library New York" is on the t.p.; embossed stamps for "Astor Library Lafayette Place" are found on the t.p. and scattered throughout the text. Ms. note "De la Libreria del Colegio de S[a]n Xavier" on t.p.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary vellum.