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-R

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

Medina, J.T. México

Viñaza. Bib. lenguas indigenas de America

Sabin

Palau y Dulcet (2. ed.)

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

plus-circle Add Review

comment

Reviews