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Arte de la lengua mexicana y castellana, / compuesta por el muy reuerendo padre fray Alonso de Molina dela orden de señor sant Francisco
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Previously published in Mexico by Espinosa in 1555. In two parts, with separate dated title pages. Title page of part two reads: Vocabulario en lengua mexicana y castellana, compuesto por el muy reuerendo padre fray Alonso de Molina, de la Orden del bienauenturado nuestro padre sant Francisco. Colophon at end of part 2 reads: Aqui hazen fin los dos vocabularios, en lengua castellana y nahual o mexicana que hizo y recopilo el muy reuerendo padre, fray Alonso de Molina: de la orden de señor san Francisco. Imprimieronse en la muy insigne y gran ciudad de Mexico: en casa de Antonio de Spinosa. En el ano de nuestra rede[m]pcion.de.1571. =Nican tzonquica yn ontetl vocabularios ypan castillan tlatolli yuan nauatlatolli, yn oquimotlalili cenca mauiztililoni, totatzin fray Alfonso de Molina, teupixqui sant Francisco. Omicuilo nican ypan vey altepetl ciudad Mexico: ycha[n] Antonio de Spinosa. Ypan xiuitl.1571.anos. Printer's device on verso of leaf [1] at end of part 1, and on recto of leaf V10 at end of part 2. Part 1: [4], 121, [1] leaves; pt. 2: [2], 162 leaves. Foliation errors: in part 1, leaves 44 and 55 misprinted as 45 and 47 respectively. Signatures: part 1: *⁴ a-o⁸ p¹⁰ ; part 2: pi² A-T⁸ V¹⁰. In part 1, leaves A2 and g3 are missigned as a2 and g2 respectively.
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Imprint from colophon. Title in red and black. Signatures: [superscript pi]a⁸ A⁸ B-Z⁴ &⁴ 2A-2Z⁴ 2&⁴ 2[maltese cross]⁴ a-p⁴. Verso of final leaf blank.
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Imprint from colophon. Title in red and black. Signatures: [superscript pi]a⁸ A⁸ B-Z⁴ &⁴ 2A-2Z⁴ 2&⁴ 2[cross]⁴ a-p⁴. Verso of final leaf blank.
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Text in Nahuatl and Spanish in parallel columns, set in roman and italic type respectively. Colophon: A gloria y honra de Dios nuestro señor y dela siempre virgen Sancta Maria su madre y señora nuestra, fenesce la Doctrina Christiana muy digna de ser sabida que compuso en lengua Mexicana y Castellana el muy reuerendo Padre Fray Iuan de la Anunciacion sub prior de Sant Augustin destra ciudad. En Mexico en casa de Pedro Balli. 1575. Woodcut ill. of St. Augustine on t.p. and repeated full page illustration of the saint with his congregation on the verso of leaf S3. Full page woodcut coat of arms of the dedicatee, don Martin Enriquez, on t.p. verso. Numerous errors in pagination. Signatures: [cross]⁶ A-S⁸ T². Leaf K2 missigned as A2. Final p. blank. Errata on p. [2]-[3] at end.
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Title and imprint from colophon. Signatures: a-c⁸ D-Z⁸ [et]⁵. Leaf CLXXVIII misnumbered CLXXIII; signature marks ciiij misidentified as biiij, c5 as Eij and Qiiij as iiij.
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Text in Nahuatl; licenses, Prologo, other preliminary matter, and Tabla in Spanish. Title page woodcut device of the Franciscan Order; on verso woodcut illustration of penitent at confession, repeated on leaf 40 recto, woodcut device on leaf 102 recto and at end of Tabla. Numerous errors in foliation. Signature: [superscript pi]A-B⁸ A-O⁸ ²A². Errata on [2] leaves at end. Includes index.
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