Confessionario mayor, en la lengna [sic] mexicana y castellana.
Confessionario mayor is a 1578 Mexican confessional manual by the Franciscan friar Alonso de Molina, printed in Mexico City by Pedro Balli for priests hearing confessions in Nahuatl and Spanish. Its woodcut initials and small framed scenes show Christian rites such as baptism, the Trinity, mass and confession, set in dense two-column type with decorated capitals a designer could borrow for period typography.
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