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Histoire d'vn voyage fait en la terre du Bresil, dite Amerique. Contenant... les moeurs & façons de viure estranges des sauuages bresiliens : auec vn colloque de leur langage... Quatrieme edition.
[Geneva]: Heirs of Eustache Vignon, 1600
Physical Description: [72], 478, [18] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., music ; 18 cm. (8vo)
Call number: E600/ L621h
Accession number: 11273
Notes:
The author gives an account of Nicolas Durand de Villegagnon's colony in Brazil and the Tupi Indians who inhabited the country.
"Colloque de l'entree ou arriuee en la terre du Bresil, entre les gens du pais nommez Tououpinambaoults, & Toupinenkins en langage sauuage & François", p. 389-422, contains numerous phrases in the Tupi language translated into the French language, a discussion of grammar with examples, and a comparative glossary of words in Tupi and French. There are also numerous words and phrases in the Tupi language scattered throughout the text.
Includes musical notations with words in the Tupi language on p. 173, 188, 307, and 314.
Place of publication suggested by Alden.
Edition statement appears before statement of responsibility on title page.
Actuality the sixth French edition. The fifth French edition was printed in Geneva, 1599.Cf. Moraes.
This edition is a reissue of the fifth French edition with an altered imprint date.
First printed La Rochelle, 1578.
Includes index.
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Languages: Tupi
Genre: Grammar / Specimen / Vocabulary
Region: Brazil
