Indian Languages Database

Record Details

 

Catholic Church.

Evangeliarium, epistolarium et lectionarium Aztecum sive Mexicanum ex antiquo codice Mexicano nuper reperto: depromptum cum praefatione interpretatione adnotationibus glossario.

Milan: Typis Jos. Bernardoni qm. Johannis, 1858

Physical Description: XLIX, [3], 574, [2] p., [1] leaf of plates : facsim. ; 36 cm. (4to)

Call number: B858/ C363e/ 2-SIZE

Accession number: 02813

Notes: Nahuatl version of readings in Scripture translated by Bernardino de Sahagún, printed in parallel columns with Latin text; followed by a Nahuatl-English dictionary. Edited by Bernardino Biondelli. Preface in Latin includes “De lingua Azteca” (p. XXI-XXIII); “Generales linguae Aztecae proprietates” (p. XXIII-XXX), including verb paradigms; “De affinitatis linguae Nahuatl cum aliis” (p. XXX-XXXIX), listing 60 Aztec terms with apparent similarities to their equivalents in various European languages; and “De traditionibus, institutionibus et monumentis Aztecorum” (p. XXXIX-XLIX). The “Glossarium Azteco-Latinum” (p. [427]-553) lists over 7000 Nahuatl entries with Latin equivalents, in double columns. Includes detailed table of contents (p. 555-574). JCB copy bound with Biondelli, Bernardino. Sull’antica lingua azteca o nahuatl osservazioni. Milan: Tipografia Bernardoni, 1860.

To access digital facsimile copy of book, click here.

Languages: Nahuatl

Genre: Bible selections / Dictionary / Grammar

Region: Spanish America