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Manitowompae pomantamoonk sampwshanau Christianoh: uttoh woh an pomantog wnssikkitteahonat [sic] God.
Cambridge [Mass.]: Printed [by Samuel Green] for the Right Honerable [sic] Corperation [sic] in London for the Gospelizing the Indins [sic] in New-England, 1685 [i.e. 1686]
Physical Description: 288, 273-333, [3] p. ; 15 cm. (8vo)
Call number: DA686/ B359m
Accession number: 03647
Notes: Main text entirely in Massachuset. Frequent marginal citations throughout indicate English Biblical sources for Massachuset text. Title page includes Scripture excerpt in Massachusett (I Tim. 4.8).
An abridged verson of the second edition of Lewis Bayley’s Practice of piety, first printed in English, London, 1612; this translation by John Eliot first printed Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1665.
Impint follows customary practice of giving the year printing was begun. JCB copy has modern ms. letter from John Eliot to Robert Boyle tipped in to face title page; from Eliot’s letter it appears that this edition was not completed and bound until the summer of 1686.
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Languages: Massachuset
Genre: Bible selections / Catechisms and Creeds
Region: North America
