Includes instructions on administering the sacraments and on doctrine

T.p. mostly ill., with the legend in red: "Penitentiam agite, appropinaquabit enim regnum c[a]elorum. Matthei. capit. 3."

Added t.p. on leaf 3r, reading: Confessionario mayor, instruction [sic] y doctrina, para el que se quiere bien confessar: compuesto por el reuerendo padre fray Alo[n]so de Molina de la orden de señor sant Francisco: traduzido y buelto en la lengua de los nauas, por el mismo autor

Signatures: a-p q

Black letter type, except for "Epistola nuncupatoria" on leaf 2 and the Latin absolution at the bottom of leaf 56v, which are in roman type

Full page woodcut of crucifixion on t.p.; smaller ones throughout text, primarily of Biblical scenes

Main text in parallel columns of Nahuatl and Spanish

Acabose de imprimir este Confessionario, en la muy insigne y gran ciudad de Mexico: en casa de Antonio de Espinosa impressor de libros, junto a la yglesia de señor Sant Augustin: a quinze d mayo. Año.de.1565. -- coloph

Foliation errors: leaf 56 numbered 65, leaf 78 has numeral 7 upside-down

Numerous catchword discrepancies and errors

Includes bibliographical references (in margins, mainly Biblical) and index (leaves 121v-[3])

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675

Medina, J.T. Mexico

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

Sabin

Palau y Dulcet (2. ed.)

Viñaza. Bibl. lenguas indígenas

Ugarte, S. Catálogo

Valtón, E. Impresos mexicanos

John Carter Brown Library copy has ms. annotation on t.p.: Martin Cantig Año 1630 nobiem[bre].24. Also has ms. corrections to Nahuatl text on leaves 16v, 21r, 26v, 36r and 56v

John Carter Brown Library copy bound as no. 2 of 2 with the author's Confessionario breue, Mexico, 1565

John Carter Brown Library copy has repair to inner margin of leaf 1 with minimal loss of text

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