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Le voyage et nauigation, faict par les Espaignolz es Isles de Mollucques. Des isles quilz ont trouue audict voyage, des roys dicelles, de leur gouuernement & maniere de viure, auec plusiers aultres choses.
Paris: Simon de Colines, [1525?]
Physical Description: 76, [4] leaves; 16 cm. (8vo)
Call number: H525/ P628v
Accession number: 03360
Notes: Includes 2 brief Indian language vocabularies. The first, “Aucuns motz du peuple de lisle de Bresil” (leaf [1] recto, 2nd count), with reference “Post cap. viij” (although text describing Brazil begins in chapter vi [leaves 4 recto-6 recto]; chapter viii describes subsequent leg of voyage)], lists 8 terms in French with Tupi (?) equivalents in parallel column. The second list, “Motz des geans de Pataghone” (leaf [1] recto, second count), with reference “Post. cap. 8” (relevant chapter is actually chapter xiii), contains 40 terms in French with native (Mapuche?) equivalents in parallel column.
Abridged translation, by Jacques Antoine Fabre, from a manuscript in Italian. Account of the Spanish expedition around the world, from 1519 to 1522, under the command of Ferdinand Magellan. Includes index.
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Languages: Mapuche / Tupi
Genre: Vocabulary
Region: Brazil / Spanish America
