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Arte de lengua mexicana. Vá añadido, y enmendado en esta segunda impression.
Puebla de los Angeles: Diego Fernández de León, 1693
Physical Description: [2], 50 leaves ; 20 cm. (4to)
Call number: B693/ V393a
Accession number: 28596
Notes: Preliminaries and grammatical discussion in Spanish, with examples and paradigms in Nahuatl. Includes a section on numerical terms and various counting systems for animate and inanimate objects, and names of colors (leaves 28 recto-31 verso); “Confessionario breve en lengua mexicana, y castellana” with the Ten Commandments and a list of kinship terms (leaves 32 recto-38 recto), in both Nahuatl and Spanish; and “Cathecismo breve de lo que pressisamente deve saber el Christiano, en lengua mexicana” in Nahuatl (leaves 39 recto-43 verso). “Correcciones que se les podran dar a los penitentes Mexicanos de algunos pecados en el confessionario” in Nahuatl (leaves 44 recto-50 verso) were added to this second edition. First published, Puebla de los Angeles, 1689.
Languages: Nahuatl
Genre: Catechisms and Creeds / Grammar / Vocabulary
Region: Spanish America
