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Edvcacion Christiana: y buena criança de los niños guaranis: provechosa para todos estados. : Qve contiene varios exercicios de devocion provechosos para alcançar perceverancia final y vna buena muerte. Compuestos en lengua guarani por vn padre de la Compañia de Iesvs. Deseoso del bien de las almas dedicala à la comun vtilidad.
s.l.: , Año de 1713
Physical Description: [2], 130, 73 leaves ; 24 cm. (4to)
Call number: 1-SIZE Codex / Ind / 45
Accession number: 10-02
Notes: Ms. codex.
Leaf [2] recto, 1st count, is an added title page and is written entirely in Guarani, reading: Qvatia poromboè marangatv tetiron gatvbaè cunumbuçu upe y quabeembi , angaypa hegui yñepihĩro hagua: haè tupa gracia reromano hagua rano [some accents have been left out due to the impossibility of formatting them].
Headings of text are either in Spanish or Guarani; text is predominantly in Guarani; some caption titles of sermons on leaves 1-73, 3rd count, are in Latin.
This manuscript cannot be positively attributed to any one author, though it is suspected the author was a Jesuit working with the Guarani. However, it is has been conjectured by research conducted by the bookseller that the author could have likely been the Jesuit fathers Antonio Ruiz de Montoya, Paulo Restivo, or Cristóval Altamirando [or Altamirano]. It is noted in the accompanying bibliographic material the similarities of this manuscript and another entitled "Compendio de la doctrina Cristiana para niños. Compuesto en lengua francesa por el R.P. Francisco Pomeij, de la Compañia de Jesus. Y traducido en lengua guarani por el padre Cristoval de Altamirando [or Altalmirano] de la misma Compañia" which is cited by Furlong in his Glorias Santafesinas, Buenos Aires, 1929, which reproduces the title page and the first page of this manuscript and has identical calligraphic characteristics, which means that the same hand could have prodiced the work, whom according to Furlong, could have been an indigenous Guarani. The "Compendio de la doctrina Cristiana para niños" manuscript has been published in facsimile in São Paulo by the Seccão Gráfica da Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras da Universidade de São Paulo, 1956.
Place of publication cannot be determined. The Guarani Indians lived in the center of South America, in what are now the modern countries of Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Bolivia.
Recto and verso of first front flyleaf contain a table of contents.
"Indice de los sermones": ms. table of contents of rear pastedown.
"El texto de la doctrina Christiana en lengua guarani", leaves 1-130, 2nd count, consists of various texts and spiritual exercises.
"Passion ...": leaves 1-73, 3rd count, contains various sermons.
John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full calf and is housed in a slipcase measuring 26 cm. tall.
John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Sophia Augusta Brown Fund, the Harper Fund and the B.H. Breslauer Foundation.
Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Pedro Araquindi 1740 mayo 30: autograph on front pastedown; D[o]n Juan Anu [or Ana]: autograph on front pastedown; Buenos Aires abril 16 de 1886 al señor Dr. don Olegario Ojeda en les [...] de aprecio. Luis Farnesi: ms. presentation inscription on front pastedown; Año de 1790 me dio este libro el administrador de Sta. Lucia D[o]n Diego Antonio de Pxò. Fr. Miguel Guaxás (?): presentation inscription on verso of first rear flyleaf.
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Languages: Guarani
Genre: Catechisms and Creeds
Region: Spanish America
