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Idea de una nueva historia general de la America septentrional. Fundada sobre material copioso de figuras, symbolos, caractères, y geroglificos, cantares, y manuscritos de authores indios, ultimamente descubiertos.
Madrid: Imprenta de Juan de Zuñiga, 1746
Physical Description: 20 l., 167 p., 4 l., 96 p. ; port. (4to)
Call number: B746/ B751i
Accession number: 02056
Notes: The first part (p. 1-167), containing Nahuatl references throughout, deals with Indian codices and how to read them. The author, who traveled to Mexico in 1735 in order to trace the historical origins of Our Lady of Guadeloupe, draws on his own collection of Mexican-Indian manuscripts, which John B. Glass termed “the most important collection for Mexican ethno-history ever assembled” (Hough, item #65, p. 54). Material on native religion and calendar systems includes vocabulary for days and months (p. 44-56). The second part, the “Catalogo del museo historico indiano del cavallero Lorenzo Boturini Benaducci, Señor de la Torre, y de Hono” (leaves [1-4], p. [1]-96 p. at end), lists the items in the author’s collection.
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Languages: Nahuatl
Genre: Vocabulary
Region: Spanish America
