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The pleasant historie of the conquest of the VVeast India, now called New Spayne, atchieued by the vvorthy prince Hernando Cortes... translated out of the Spanishe tongue, by T.N.
London: Henry Bynneman, [1578]
Physical Description: [8], 405, [3] p. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Call number: B578/ L864p/ R
Accession number: 0662
Notes: Contains several brief lists of Nahuatl vocabulary, including numerals 1-20 and calendrical terms (some of which are animal names and other common nouns) for months, days, weeks, and years, with English equivalents in parallel column (p. 370-374 [i.e. 376]). Preceded by “The letters that the Indians used in Mexican”, a paragraph discussing Nahuatl hieroglyphics and phonetics (p. 371 [i.e. 369]).
Translation, by Thomas Nicholas, of author's Conquista de Mexico, first published as second part of author’s La istoria de las Indias, y Conquista de Mexico, Saragossa: Agustin Millan, 1552.
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Languages: Nahuatl
Genre: Vocabulary
Region: Spanish America
