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Luces del otom o, gramática del idioma que hablan los indios otomíes en la República Mexicana.

Mexico: Imprenta del Gobierno Federal, en el Arzobispado, 1893

Physical Description: ix, [1], 303, [1] p. ; 22 cm.

Call number: B893/ B928l

Accession number: 06317

Notes: Concise grammar and several dictionaries arranged in 6 books. Book 1 contains grammatical notes divided into 22 chapters (p. [4]-29), followed by “Diccionario que usaban los Eclesiásticos des Hospital Real” (p. 29-61), terms for body parts (p. 61-64), and kinship terms (p. 64-66), all Spanish to Otomí; a catechism and prayers in both languages, including the Señal de la cruz, Padre nuestro, Ave Maria, Credo, Salve, Ten Commandments, Mandamientos de la ley de Dios, Mandamientos de la Santa Madre Iglesia, Sacramentos, and Artículos de la fe (p. 67-77). Book 2 contains text attributed to Fathers Horacio Carochi y Francisco Jiménez of the Society of Jesús, and Juan Sánchez de la Baquera, “secular de Tula”; a list of adverbs; and a Spanish-Otomí dictionary compiled from Juan Sánchez de la Baquera (p. [79]-116). Book 3 contains data derived from “D. Luis de Neve, presbítero, sinodal de este Arzobispado”, and an Otomí-Spanish “Diccionario de nombres y verbos” (p. [117]-179). Book 4 consists of an Otomí-Spanish dictionary corresponding to the Spanish-Otomí vocabulary listed in Book 1 as well as terms in use by the “presbíteros del Hospital Real” (p. [181]-213). Book 5 consists of an Otomí-Spanish dictionary corresponding to the Spanish-Otomí list in Book 2 along with terms from Juan Sánchez de la Baquera and his disciples (p. [215]-230). Book 6 (Addendum, p. [231]-287) is the Spanish-Otomí version of the dictionary in Book 3. Contains table of contents. In the introduction the editor Eustaquio Buelna notes that the author of the work, presumably a Jesuit because he dedicates the work to Saint Ignatius de Loyola, remains unknown and that it was compiled in manuscript form ca. 1770.

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Languages: Otomi

Genre: Catechisms and Creeds / Dictionary / Grammar

Region: Spanish America