Apologia, y declaracion en dialogos en la lengua mexicana, del symbolo de San Athanasio, y confessionario breve
By: Compuesto por el bachiller Iuan Ossorio, presbytero, y ministro de los naturales
Contributors: León, Nicolás, 1859-1929
Publisher: en la Imprenta de Iuan Ruyz
Published: 1653
Place of publication: Impresso con licentia, en Mexico
Language: spa; nah
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: Doctrines; Indians of Mexico; Missions; Indian linguistics; Nahuatl language; Languages; Texts; CSAIP; Catholic Church
Notes: Date of publication appears before publisher's statement on t.p.

Signatures: pi² A-H⁴

Confessionario breve, leaves 27-30, in double columns, Nahuatl and Spanish. Cathecismo leaves 31-32 in Nahuatl.

Woodcut symbolic ill. of the Trinity on leaf 6 recto, on 6 verso and leaf 7 recto ill. of the Trinity personified; title in ornamental border, woodcut tail-pieces, decorative initials.

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, II:432.

Medina, J.T.  México, 787.

Palau y Dulcet (2. ed.), 206613.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary vellum.

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