Discovery of a fragment of the printed copy of the work on the Millcayac language by Luis de Valdivia

Schuller, Rodolfo R.

Published by published by the Museum, Cambridge, 1913

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8vo, pp. [4], 225-258; original printed wrappers bound nto library card binding, printed paper label on spine; near fine. An Ayer Linguistic duplicate with a Newberry bookplate and a Newberry release stamp onside the front cover. Harvard University's Peabody Museum of American Archaeology & Ethnology, Papers, volume 3, no. 5. The fragment in question consists of two pages of the text of Valdivia's "Doctrina christiana" [y cathecismo en la lengua millcayac?] numbered on recto "12" and title leaf of his "Confessionario breve en la lengua millcayac" numbered on recto "21", the title page having imprint: En Lima por Francisco del Canto, año 1607. The titles quoted appear to have been those of the 1st and 2d parts of a work in 4 parts, issued in Lima in 1607, accompanying a similar work prepared for the use of the Allentiac Indians. Seller Inventory # 52816

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Title: Discovery of a fragment of the printed copy ...

Publisher: published by the Museum, Cambridge

Publication Date: 1913

Binding: Soft cover