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Arte de lengua mexicana... Corregido segun su original por el Br. D. Antonio de Olmedo, y Torre, cura theniente de la parrochia auxiliar del Evangelista S. Marcols de la ciudad de los Angeles.
Puebla [de los Angeles]: Diego Ferna[ñ]dez de Leo[ñ], y por su original en la Imprenta de Francisco Xavier de Morales, y Salazar, 1726
Physical Description: [2], 1-35, 37-54 leaves ; 20 cm. (4to)
Call number: BA726/ V393a
Accession number: 06261 ; 28443
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 29 verso-33 verso); “Confessionario breve en lengua mexicana, y castellana” with the Ten Commandments and a list of kinship terms (leaves 34 recto-42 recto), in both Nahuatl and Spanish; “Cathecismo breve de lo que pressisamente deve saber el Christiano, en lengua mexicana” in Nahuatl (leaves 42 recto-47 recto); and “Correcciones que se les podran dar a los penitentes Mexicanos de algunos pecados en el confessionario” in Nahuatl (leaves 47 verso-55 verso), which first appeared in the second edition, 1693.
Third edition. First published Puebla, 1689.
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Languages: Nahuatl
Genre: Catechisms and Creeds / Grammar / Vocabulary
Region: Spanish America
