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Confessionario mayor, y menor en lengua mexicana. Y platicas contra las supresticiones [sic] de idolatria, que el dia de oy an quedado a los naturales desta Nueua Espana, è instrucion de los santos sacramentos &c. ...

Alva, Bartolomé de, fl. 1634-1641 · 1634 · Impresso en Mexico : Por Francisco Salbago, impressor del Secreto del Santo Officio. Por Pedro de Quiñones · 7 pictures

A 1634 Nahuatl-language confessional manual by Bartolomé de Alva, printed in Mexico City by Francisco Salbago and Pedro de Quiñones for Indigenous Catholic converts in New Spain. The pictures are small woodcut ornaments: grotesque masks with swagged drapery, a decorated letter P in a scrolled frame, and a historiated initial C showing a figure in combat, all in a rough, dense carved style a designer could borrow for headers, drop caps, and ornamental borders.

Catholic Church · Indian linguistics · Confession · Nahuatl language · Indians of Mexico · CSAIP · Imprint 1634

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