MOLINA. 507 
Molina (Fr. Alonso de) — continued. 
Colophon : 
CAcabose de impri- | mir este Confessionario, en la muy in | 
signe y gran ciudad de Mexico: en casade An- | tonio de Espiiiosa 
impressor de libros, jun | to a la yglesia de Seuor Sint Augu- | 
stin: a quinze de Mayo. | Ano de 1565. | Laus deo. | job. 
Title, with a Tvood-cut of the Crucifixion, nearly filling the page ; reverse, Pri- 
vilege, 11.; "Epistola nuncnpatoria," dated 1564, 11.; text, 121 numbered 11., 
in double columns ; table, 3 11. 4°. Gothic letter. 
2607 Confes | sionario Ma- | yor, en la lengna [sic] Me | xicana 
y Castellana. | Compiiesto por | el muy Reuerendo padre | Fray 
Alonso de Mo | lina, de la orden del | Seraphico sant | Francisco. | 
En Mexico. | 1" En casa de Pedro Balli. | Aiio de 1578. | • 
Ll. 1-2, title and dedication; 11. 3-132 (wrongly numbered IVi), the Confessio- 
nario; 4 11., unnumbered, table and privilege; Gothic letter, 2 columns 4°. Title 
from Icazbalceta's Apuntes, No. 131. 
2608 Doctrina xpiana breue traduzida en lengua Mexicana, por 
el p" frai Alonso de Molina de la Orden de los menores, y exami- 
nada por el E*" p" loan gon^alez, Canonigo de la ygl'ia Cathedral 
de la yiudad de Mexico, por mandado del Rmo. S""^ don frai loa de 
^umarraga, obpo de la dha. giudad, el qual la Lizo imprimir en el 
ano de 1546 a 20 de lunio. 
It is known that Fr. Alonso de Molina wrote a Doctrina, major and minor, in 
the Mexican language ; P. Mendieta expressly says so in his Historia Ecchsida- 
tica Indiana, book iv, chap. 44, and this notice has been printed many times. P. 
Torquemada has incorporated it literally in chap. 33, book xix.of his Monarqitia 
Indiana. Gonzaga says the same in his work De Origine Seraphico' Heligioiiis, p. 
1242. In the colophon of the Doctrina castellana y mexicana, of l.')48 (No. 13), 
there is mentioned, with sufficient clearness, the edition of the Doctrina breve, 
made in 1546, although without stating the name of the author. "In the con- 
gregation held by the bishops it was ordered that there should be made two 
doctrinas, one short and the other large, and the short one is that which was 
printed in the year 1546. The reverend senors commanded that the other, the 
great one, should be for the fuller explanation of the small one." This indication 
cannot refer to the Doctrina of 1.546, spoken of here (No. 10), for that is in Casti- 
lian alone, and this speaks evidently of one in Castilian and Mexican, like that 
of 1548 (No. 13), of which it is a mate. [See No. 1053 of this catalogue.] Never- 
theless, D. Nicoliis Antonio, well versed in the books of America (Bibl. Hisp. 
Nova, vol. 1, p. 37), has spoken of this edition, since among the writings of P. 
Molina he places the lollowing : " Cathecismo mayor y meiior. Doubtless this is 
the same as the Doctrina Christiana in the Mexican tongue, edited in Mexico in 
1546 [1564], again in 1606. 4°." Pinelo Barci.a (column 726) mentions "two 
Doctrinas Clirisdanas, greater and less, printed 1.546, 1606" — a notice which I 
think is laken from Antonio. Finally P. Molina himself, in the dedication of his 
Arte, 1571, asserts that ho has printed a Doctrina Christiana — a reference which 
cannot apply to that of 1578, for fhat was made afterwards. In spite of all ihis 
and of the mention by less noted authors of four editions of the Doctrina l)rcvo 
in Mexican (1G75, 1718, 1732, 1735, in 8°), without counting one of 1.571 (of which 
there are clear indications in the license of the Vocahiilario of said year), nor that 
of 1606 mentioned by Antonio y Uarcia, which I have not seen nor found cited 
anywhere else, Berislaiu does not put such a Doctrina nienor among the writings 
of P. Molina, excejjt only the Mexican one of 1578. 
