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Arte dela lengua mexicana y castellana... de nueuo in esta segunda impression corregida, emendada y añadida, mas copiosa y clara que la primera.
Mexico: Pedro Balli, 1576
Physical Description: [8], 112 leaves ; 16 cm. (8vo)
Call number: BA576/ M722a
Accession number: 03785
Notes: Preliminaries in Spanish; grammatical study in Spanish with Nahuatl examples. Part 1 consists of eight chapters on the parts of speech, covering nouns, pronouns, verbs, participles, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. “Segunda parte del arte dela lengua mexicana, y castellana” (leaves 79-112, 3rd count) contains “una declaracion necessaria de algunas dictiones dificultosas desta lengua mexicana en especial de los nombres y de los verbos” (leaf 79r), including lists of numerals and 11 rules for counting (leaves 1v-7r) and “Del buen sonido y del accento y buena pronunciacion” (leaves 27-35). Set in black letter type.
First published Mexico, 1571.
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Languages: Nahuatl
Genre: Grammar
Region: Spanish America
