MIJANGOS — MOLINA. 1025 
Modo — continued. 
2599 h Modo de Confesar | en lengua maya. | 1803. | dgb. 
OriginalniannscriptofSC 11., with modern title 1 1.; in two columns. 4°. Dr. 
Brinton, in bis manuscript catalogue of the Berendt collection, describes it as 
follows: "Written in a clear, small hand, Spanish in one column, Maya in the 
other. The name of the author is carefully blotted on the first page and is illegi- 
ble. The questions and answers extend over a wide variety of topics, and form 
a valuable means of studying the language. The manuscript was obtained in 
Campeche by Dr. Berendt." 
2599 c Moguer [Fr. Andres). Sermonarios de todo el ano en lengua 
mejicana. • 
Title from Sobron, Los Idiomas de la America Latina, p. 56. 
2608 Molina {Fr. Alonzo de). Doctrina xpiana breue traduzida en 
lengua Mexicana. » 
The following note descriptive of the above work is from Icazbalceta's 
Bibliografia Mexicana del Siglo xvi, pp. 13-16 : 
Title from the C6dice franciscauo [830 a]. 
It was known that Fr. Alonso de Molina had written a large and a small Doc- 
trina in the Mexican language, for P. Mendieta says so plainly in his Historia 
Eclesidslica Indiana, lib. i v, cap. 44 ; and this notice was printed long ago, being 
incorporated literally by P. Torqueinada in cap. 33, lib. xix, of his Monarqma 
Indiana. The same fact is stated in the work of the illustrious Gonzaga, De Ori- 
gine Seraphicce. BeUgionis, page 1242. In the colophon of the Spanish and Mexican 
Doctiina of 1548, there is mentioned, with sufficient clearness, the edition of the 
Doctrina Ireve made in 1546, although the name of the author is not staled: 
"And because at the assembly held by the bishops, it was decreed that there 
should be made two Doctrinas, one brief and the other full: and the hrief one is that 
which was irrinted in the year 15i6; his reverend lordship [Zunidrraga] commands 
that this may be the large one, for explanation of the other small one." This 
notice cannot refer to the well known Doctrina of 1546, because that is entirely in 
Spanish, and here it refers evidentlj' to one in Spanish and Mexican, like that of 
1548, which it was to accompany. Even D. Nicolils Antonio, little acquainted 
with American books (Diil. Hisp. Nova, torn. 1, p. 37), knew of the edition, for 
among the writings of P.Molina he places the following: " Catecismo mai/or y 
menor. Probably this is the same as the Doctrina Christiana in the Mexican lan- 
guage, first printed at Mtxico in 1.54B, again in 1606. 4"." Finally, P. Molina him- 
self, in the dedication of his Arte, 1571, asserts that he had printed a Doctrina 
cristiana ; a reference that cannot be applied to the edition of 1578, as that was 
published afterwards. 
Notwithstanding all this, and that there are, at the least, four later editions 
of the Doctrina brere (without counting that of 1606, mentioned by Antonio, 
which I have not seen, nor found referred to elsewhere), Beristaiu does not put 
such a Doctrina menor among the writings of P. Molina, excepting only the Mexi- 
can one of 1578, which will be spoken of in its place. The certain knowledge 
of the edition of 1546, and also of its text, is due to the discovery of an ancient 
manuscript, an account of which will bo given in a few words. 
On the 23d of January, 1569, the king gave notice to the archbishop of Mexico, 
D.Fr. Alonso de Montufar, that on account of the oflScial visit which the Lie. 
Juan de Ovando was making to the Council of the Indies, certain investigations 
were necessary, and charged him to perform them, sending at the same time a 
list of the subjects to be included. One of these was that there should be seut 
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