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Les voyages de la Nouuelle France occidentale, dite Canada... avec... vn catechisme ou instruction traduite du françois au langage des peuples sauuages de quelque contrée.
Paris: Claude Collet, 1640
Physical Description: 16, 308, 310, 8, 54, 20 p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill., map; 23 cm. (4to)
Call number: E640/ C453v
Accession number: 07594
Notes: Includes “Doctrine chrestienne du R.P. Ledesme de la Compagnie de Iesus. Traduicte en langage canadois, autre que celuy des Montagnars, pour la conversion des habitans dudit pays. Par le R.P. Breboeuf de la mesme compagnie”, first published Rouen, 1630 (p. 1-15, 6th count), with French and Huron / Wyandot in parallel columns; and "L'Oraison Dominicale, tradvite en langage des Montagnars de Canada. Par le R.P. [Enemond] Massé de la Compagnie de Iesus" (p. 16-20, 6th count), with Montagnar text and French interlinear translation.
First published, Paris, 1632; here a reissue of that edition with cancel t.p.
JCB has 2 copies.
To access digital facsimile copy of book, click here.
LANGUAGE ID notes:
Campbell 153: Cree-Montagnais
Sebeok 315: Montagnar, Montagnards, Montagnaise, Montagnais-Naskapi, Mountaineers, Montagnie all listed under Montagnais in Algonquian family
MARC: Cree UF Montagnais (Algonquian) BUT Montagnais (Athapascan) USE Chipewyan
Languages: Cree-Montagnais / Wyandot
Genre: Catechisms and Creeds
Region: North America
