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Doctrine chrestienne ... Traduite en langage canadois, pour la conuersion des habitans dudit pays.
Rouen: Richard l'Allemant, 1630
Physical Description: 26, [2] p. ; 16 cm (8vo)
Call number: BA630/ L473d
Accession number: 0369
Notes: Bilingual text with French and Huron / Wyandot in parallel columns consists of fourteen lessons in question-and-answer format.
Translation, probably by Jean de Brébeuf, of Ledesma, Doctrina cristiana, from an unknown Spanish version. Also included in Samuel Champlain's Les voyages de la Nouvelle France, Paris, 1632 (also reissued Paris, 1640) as “Doctrine chrestienne du R.P. Ledesme de la Compagnie de Iesus. Traduicte en langage canadois, autre que celuy des Montagnars, pour la conversion des habitans dudit pays. Par le R.P. Breboeuf de la mesme compagnie.”
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Languages: Wyandot
Genre: Catechisms and Creeds
Region: North America
