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Confessionario En Lengua Mexicana y Castellana : con muchas advertencias muy necessarias para los Confessores

Juan Bautista, fray, 1555-approximately 1613 · 1599 · Por Melchior Ocharte · 3 pictures

A 1599 Mexican confessional manual in Nahuatl and Spanish by the Franciscan friar Juan Bautista, printed in Mexico City for priests hearing confession among Nahuatl speakers. Its pictures are small woodcut printer's ornaments and an initial letter, plus a copperplate bookplate of the Franciscan library, offering a designer ornate decorative borders, a historic colonial lettering model, and dense engraved cartouche framing.

Nahuatl language · Casuistry · Catholic Church · Texts

Internet Archive · Public domain (published before 1931) · More from this library