Confessionario breue, en lengua mexicana y castellana
By: compuesto por el muy reuere[n]do padre fray Alonso de Molina, de la orde[n] del seraphico padre Sant Francisco
Contributors: Espinosa, Antonio de, d. 1578; Franciscans
Publisher: En casa de Antonio de Espinosa, imp[re]ssor.
Published: 1565
Place of publication: En Mexico
Language: spa; nah
Number of pages: 20
Subjects: Indians of Mexico; Missions; Confession; Indian linguistics; Handbooks, manuals; Nahuatl language; Languages; Texts; CSAIP; Catholic Church; Franciscans
Other titles: Confessionario breve en lengua mexicana y castellana.
Notes: Signatures: a-b⁸ c⁴

T.p. printed in red and black. Title vignette of shield with symbol of five bleeding wounds of Christ, surrounded by a wreath, then by a border with the legend: Accipite Spiritum Sanctum, quorum remiseritis peccata: remittuntur eis. Et quorum retinueritis, retenta sunt. Joa[n]nis. 20.

Main text in Nahuatl and Spanish in parallel columns, with black letter type.

Ten small woodcuts within text: 1 duplicated, 1 in triplicate.

[Maltese cross] Acabose de imprimir este confessionario en xxvj. de henero año de. 1565. -- Spanish colophon.

[Maltese cross] Ynin neyolmelaualoni yntepuztica omicuilo, otzo[n]quiz ypan ynic. xxvi. metztli, henero. 1565 -- Nahuatl colophon.

Catchword errors: Spanish catchword on 6v missing from 7r, Nahuatl catchword on 8v missing from 9r.

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, I: 230.

Medina, J.T.  Mexico, 48.

Sabin 49870.

García Icazbalceta, J. Bib. mexicana (1954 ed.), 44.

Palau y Dulcet (2. ed.) 174360.

Ugarte, S. Catálogo, 243.

Viñaza. Bibl. lenguas indígenas, 42.

Valtón, E. Impresos mexicanos, 8.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound as no. 1 of 2 with the author's Confessionario mayor en lengua mexicana y castellana. Mexico, 1565.

John Carter Brown Library copy has ms. on fly leaf: from John R. Bartlett, Providence.

John Carter Brown Library copy has tear in inner column of leaf 11.