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Georgii Marcgravii de Liebstad, Tractatus topographicus & meteorologicus Brasiliae, cum eclipsi solari; quibus additi sunt illius & aliorum commentarii de Brasiliensium & Chilensium indole & lingua.
Amsterdam: Louis and Daniel Elsevier, 1658
Physical Description: 39, [1] p. : ill. ; 37 cm. (fol.)
Call number: F658/ P678g/ 2-Size
Accession number: 03553
Notes: Includes “De lingua brasiliensium, è grammatica P. Iosephi de Anchieta”, containing brief remarks on Tupi parts of speech and phonetics (p. 20-21; extracted from Joseph de Anchieta's Arte de grammatica ... do Brasil, first published, Coimbra, 1595); "Dictionariolum nominum & verborum linguae Brasiliensibus maxime communis” and “Dictionariolum verborum maxime communium”, listing approximately 300 Tupi terms with Latin equivalents (p. 22-24); and "De chilensium lingua, & vocabularium dictionum chilensium”, listing over 300 Mapuche terms, including cardinal numbers, with Latin equivalents (p. 32-34).
Extracted in part from author's Historiae rerum naturalium Brasiliae, first published, Amsterdam, 1648, as part 2 of Willem Piso's Historia naturalis Brasiliae. The textual relationship between this work and that of Willem Piso is complex; for further information, see EA 658: 117 & 129, with references listed there.
Issued as a part of: Guglielmi Pisonis medjcj Amstelaedemensjs de Indiae utriusque re naturali et medica ljbrj quatuordecjm, Amstelaedami, apud Ludovicum et Danielem Elzevirios, 1658.
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Languages: Mapuche / Tupi
Genre: Grammar / Vocabulary
Region: Brazil / Spanish America
