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Historia nauigationis in Brasiliam quae et America dicitur... Brasiliensium victus & mores, à nostris admodum alieni, cum eorum linguae dialogo... Secunda editio.
Geneva: Heirs of Eustache Vignon Apud haeredes Eustathij Vignon., 1594
Physical Description: [58], 230, 213-340, [16] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 17 cm. (8vo)
Call number: E594/ L621hn
Accession number: 01800
Notes: Chapter 20, "Colloquium in ipso aditu Brasiliensis orae inter indigenas Tououpinambaultios Tououpinenkin Brasilicè ac Latinè conscriptum" (p. 271-297), contains a dialogue between the author and a native, giving each reply in both languages and incorporating extensive Latin glosses and notes on usage; following the dialogue proper are lists of body parts and possessive adjectives (p. 288-290), household terms (p. 290-291), kinship terms (p. 291-292), and verb tenses and moods (p. 292-295); and a catalogue of place names (p. 296-297). Scattered throughout are a number of native terms and phrases including brief songs or chants with musical notation (p. 128, p. 140 [2nd count], p. 214, p. 219-220, p. 247 [3rd count]).
Translation from author's Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Bresil. First published, La Rochelle, 1578. Second edition: first published in Latin, Geneva, 1586.
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Languages: Tupi
Genre: Grammar / Specimen / Vocabulary
Region: Brazil
