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The works on the native languages of America in this collection 

 deserve especial mention, as many of them are still in manuscript, and 

 others refer to tongues of which there is very little material accessible 

 to students. The following list of the more important will prove of 

 utility to those who are engaged in this branch : 



138. Libro de Cartas escritas a&quot; S. M. por los Obispos Gobern adores, Oficiales 

 Reales, Caciques 6 Indios de la Provincia de Yucatan. MS. (This contains sev 

 eral letters written in the Maya language by natives educated in the use of the 

 European alphabet.) 



560. BBC. Carta Escrita en Indio por Varies Caciques ti S. M. el Rey. de Espaiia 

 D. Felipe II. MS. 



563. Cuaderno de Algunas Reglas y Apuntes sobre el Idioina Pame. MS. (This 

 also contains a Doctrina Christiana, translated into the Paine, which is a dialect 

 of the Otomi stock, spoken in the State of Queretaro, Mexico.) 



625. Preceptos y Observaciones sobre Moral Christiana ; en Lengua Mexicana. MS. 

 (A MS. of the sixteenth century, containing eight leaves, from the Library of the 

 Cabildo de Toledo.) 



626. Fr. Andres de Olruos. Arte de la Lengua Mexicana. MS. (A manuscript copy 

 written in the sixteenth century. This work was first printed in Paris, in 1875, from 

 two MSS. in that city. The present very ancient one would be valuable for com 

 parison with the printed edition.) 



662. P. Joseph de Anchieta. Arte de Grammatica da Lingoa mas usada na Costa 

 do Brasil. Coirnbra, 1595. (The rare first edition of this valuable grammar of the 

 Tupi language.) 



663. Fray Juan de la Anunciacion. Sermonario en Lengua Mexicana, con un 

 Cathecisnio en Lengua Mexicaua y Espanola; con el Calendario. Mexico, 1577. (A 

 good copy of this very rare issue of the Mexican press. The calendar referred to is 

 that of the Roman Church, not that of the natives.) 



667. Arte y Vocabulario de la Lengua Morocosi; compuesto por un Padre de la 

 Compaiiia de Jesus. Madrid, 1699. (An extremely rare work on the language of 

 a tribe of South America, among whom the Jesuits established a mission.) 



685. Fr. Balthasar de Castillo. Luz y Guia de los Ministros Evangelicos. En 

 Castellano y Mexicana. Mexico, 1694. (A scarce quarto volume, valuable for the 

 Nahuatl texts it contains.) 



691. F. Juan de Cordova. Arte en Lengua Zapoteca. Mexico, 1578. (The rare orig 

 inal edition, especially valuable, not merely for its linguistic material, but as the 

 only source whence we can obtain satisfactory information of the early Zapotec 

 calendar.) 



696. Declaracion y Exposicion de la Doctrina Christiana en Lengua Mexicana, 

 hecha por los Religiosos de la Orden de Santo Domingo. Mexico, 1545. (This is 

 probably a unique perfect copy of one of the first books printed in America. It is a 

 small quarto, in Gothic letters, and on page 10 has .the autograph of Fr. Alonso de 

 Molina, the author of the first Vocabulario en Lengua Castellana y Mexicana. In 

 Icazbalceta s Apuntes para un Catfilogo de Escntores en Lenguas Indigenas de 

 America, the first edition of this doctrina was assigned to the year 1548. An earlier 

 edition, assigned to 1539, is referred to in the Cartas de Indias, Madrid, 1877.) 



703. Pedro de Feria. Doctrina Christiana en Lengua Castellaua y Zapoteca. 

 Mexico, 1567. (This Doctrina is the first work published in the language of the 

 Zapotec nation, of Oaxaca.) 



731. Fr. Martin deLeon. Camino del Cielo, en Lengua Mexicana. Mexico, 1611. 

 (A scarce work, useful for its Nahuatl texts, and for the light it throws upon some 

 of the Pagan rites and ceremonies which were still practiced by the natives.) 



747. Alonzo de Molina. Vocabulario en Lengua Castellana y Mexicana. Mexico, 

 1555. (The first edition of this standard dictionary of the Nahuatl tongue is rarely 

 seen. It is a creditable specimen of early typography.) 



