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Vimont, Barthélemy, 1594-1667.

Relation de ce qui s'est passé en la Nouuelle France en l'annee 1642. & 1643.

Paris: Sebastien Cramoisy & Gabriel Cramoisy, 1644

Physical Description: [8], 309, [3] p. ; 18 cm. (8vo)

Call number: EA644/ V765r

Accession number: 6522, 0403

Notes: Includes text of “ une lettre qu’vn Neophyte Chréstien a dictée de soy-mesme... à vn homme de consideration son bien facteur” in the Huron / Wyandot, with interlinear translation in French (p. 56-58).

JCB has two of four known variants of this edition (see McCoy 49-52): JCB copy 1 is what McCoy describes as “Variant Three”; JCB copy 2 is similar to McCoy’s “Variant Four” in that p. 306-207 are correctly numbered but differs in that p. 1 is unnumbered and the catchword on p. 160 is “çoiuent.”

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Languages: Wyandot

Genre: Specimen

Region: North America