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Tardes americanas: gobierno gentil y catolico: breve y particular noticia de toda la historia indiana: sucesos, casos notables, y cosas ignoradas, desde la entrada de la gran nacion tulteca á esta tierra de Anahuac, hasta los presentes tiempos. Trabajadas por un indio y un español.
Mexico: En la nueva Imprenta Matritense de D. Felipe de Zúñiga y Ontiveros, 1778
Physical Description: [72], 540 p., 3 leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm. (4to)
Call number: B778/ G748t
Accession number: 01530
Notes: Written in the form of a dialogue in Spanish between an Indian and a Spaniard. Contains several lists of Nahuatl terms with Spanish equivalents, primarily relating to the calendar, the natural environment, and cosmogony: months of the year, days of the month, deities, the four cardinal compass points/winds with corresponding seasons and elements, and signs of the zodiac (p. 56-68); other miscellaneous Nahuatl vocabulary passim (p. 52-55).
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Languages: Nahuatl
Genre: Vocabulary
Region: Spanish America
