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Second Mexican edition. Pedro Balli first printed it in 1575. Woodcut title vignette of the device of the Order of Saint Francis. Signatures: A-H⁸.
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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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Continues the author's Confessionario en lengua mexicana y castellana, published in 1599. Text mostly in Spanish and Latin, some sections in Nahuatl. Title page woodcut device of the Franciscan Order. "Indulgencias concedidas por diversos pontifices alos que se ocupan con los naturales," gathering [A] in pt. 1, has final Indulgencia dated 1603 and is a later insert. Colophon at the end of v. 2: Excudebat Ludouicus Ocharte Figueros, Mexici, in Regio collegio sancte crucis, sancti Iacobi de Tlatilulco. Anno Domini, 1601. Foliation: v. 1: [16], 14, 14-112, [58] leaves; v. 2: [1], 113-272, 272-443, 104 leaves. Signatures: v. 1: pi⁸ (*)⁴ [A]⁴ B-C⁸ chi1 D-P⁸ chi² A-G⁸; v. 2: pi1 Q-2Z⁸ [par.]⁸ [par. *]-[par. 4*]⁸ [par. sec.]-[par. 5sec.]⁸ ² [par. 5sec.]⁴, A-N⁸.
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