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<dl><dd>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</dd>
<dd>Signatures: A-R</dd>
<dd>Text in double columns of Nahuatl and Spanish, in black letter type; the "Epistola nuncupatoria" (leaf A2r and v) in roman type</dd>
<dd>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</dd>
<dd>Side notes with references to church fathers, Bible, etc</dd>
<dd>Originally published: Mexico, 1565</dd>
<dd>Includes index</dd>
<dd>Viñaza lists the title without the typesetter's error "Confessionariomayor, en lengua Mexicana" which may possibly reflect a variant</dd>
<dd>JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675</dd>
<dd>Medina, J.T. México</dd>
<dd>Viñaza. Bib. lenguas indigenas de America</dd>
<dd>Sabin</dd>
<dd>Palau y Dulcet (2. ed.)</dd>
<dd>John Carter Brown Library copy has early manuscript notes on t.p. (illegible) and in margins of several leaves</dd>
<dd>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</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Catholic Church; Franciscans; Catholic Church; CSAIP; Confession; Nahuatl language; Indians of Mexico; Indian linguistics; Imprint 1578</div>
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Alonso_de_Molina" class="extiw" title="w:en:Alonso de Molina"><span title="Mexican Mesoamerican linguist">Alonso de Molina</span></a>
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