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lUP.LIOGRAPIIV OF THE 



Pyrlaeus (J. C.) — Contiiuicd. 



author, and by Mr. Jortlan presented to the 

 library of the Pennaylvani.i Historicnl Society, 

 Phila. 



[Mohawk vocablesobtaincd lioiii the 



Oueida Chief Sliilcellimy. 1745-17r)l.] 



Manuscriiit, G pp. sin. 4'^. 



[New Testament words aud pas- 

 sages turued iuto Iroqaois by J. C. Pyr- 

 LeiLS. 1745-1751.] 



Manuscript, 41 pp. sin. i°. 



The last two maniLscripts are in the library 

 of the Pennsylvania Historical Society, Phila- 

 delphia, presented liy J. W. Jordan. 



Ouondagoische | WiirterverzeieL- 



uiss I vou I Christopher Pyrlieus | 

 All Oiiondago Vocabulary | with phrases 

 cV'.c. I by Christopher Pyrlieiis. [1745- 

 1751.] 



Manuscript bchmsing to the Moravian mis- 

 sion at Betlilcheui, Pa., and toiuporarily in iios- 

 sossion of the Pennsylvania Hi.storical Society, 

 Philadelpliia. Title as above on inside of cover, 

 text in Onondaga and German pp. 1-140, of 

 which the first 32 arc in doiil>le columns, sm. 

 4°. Not very distinct and not in first-class 

 state of preservation. 



Probe zu eineui Gesaugbuch der Na- 



Pyrlaeus (J. C.) — Coutiuued. 



tioneu der Mahikauder, Delawarea 

 uud etliche Verse in der Sprache derG 

 Natiouen. 1746. (") 



Manuscript, pp. 1-28, sni. 8°. 



Title from Mr. A. Glitsob, of the Unitiits- 

 Bibliothek, Herruhut, Saxony, whore the 

 manuscript is preserved. 



"Juo. Christopher Pyrhvus, the Mohawk 

 scliplar. was born at Pausa, Volgtland, in 17i:t. 

 Studied for the ministry at the (Jniversity of 

 Leipsic between IT.'SS aud 1738. Here he bo 

 came attached to the Brethren, visited Herrn- 

 hut, and accepted an appointment as mission- 

 ary. Sailed from London in coni])any wilh 

 Biiltner and Zander, and reached Bethlehem 

 October 19, 1740. Uouimenced the study of the 

 Mohawk at Tulpehocken, in January, 1743, 

 under Weiser's direction. The Breth ten hav- 

 ing failed to procure a Mohawk Indian from 

 Freehold to instruct in tliat language such of 

 their number as were set apart for the mission, 

 Pyrhcus undertook this, and on the ■1th ol Feb- 

 ruary, 1744, opened his Indian school. In Sep- 

 tember of 1745 his first translations of hymns 

 into Moliican apiieaied. Tliis was the begin- 

 ning of a collection for the use of the mi sion. 

 In November of 1751 he sailed for England, 

 where he labored until 1770. He next went 

 to Germany, where he died May 28, 1785." — 

 J^cichel. 



Q. 



Quaritch (Bernard). A general | cata- 

 logue of books, I offered to the public 

 at the affixed prices | by | Bernard 

 Quaritch. | 

 Louflou: I 15 Piccadilly. | 18S0. 



Title 1 1. preface pp. iii-iv, contents i)p. v-x, 

 catalogue pp. 1-2166, index pp. 2167-2395, 12°. 

 IiKiludcs the parts issued witli the numbers 

 309-330. — "American languages," pp. 1261-1269, 

 contains a few Iroquois titles. 



Suhsc<iuent to the above there have been 

 printed Nos. 331-369 of the general catalogue 

 (18S0-1886) and various miscellaneous parts 

 which will, I presume, form part of another 



Quaritch (B.) — Continued. 



volume. Of these gener.il parts Nos. 362 and 

 363 are entitled: "Catalngiio of the History, 

 Geography, and of the Philology of America, 

 Australia " &c. On pp. 3021-3042 (part 3G3) is 

 a section headed "American languages," which 

 contains a few Iroquois (Huron and Mohawk) 

 titles. 



Copies seen .- Bureau of Ethnology, Congress, 

 Eiimes. 



Quebec Historical Society : Tliese words following 

 a title or in parentheses after a note indicate 

 that a copy of the work referred to was seen by 

 the compiler in the library of that society, Que- 

 bec, Canada. 



R. 



Rand {Her. Silas Tertiiis). Mohawk vo- 

 ciibulary, by Silas T. Rand. [1876.] 



Manuscript, about 200 pp. tblio, bound. Eng- 

 lish and Mohawk, ali)habftically arranged ac- 

 cording to the Eiiglisli. Tlie Mohawk ecpiiva- 

 limt is lacking in many instau(^es. Concerning 

 this work and othi-rs menlioiu'd below, all of 

 wliich he has kindly sent me for examination, 

 Mr. Rand writes mo as follows : 



" I spent twoinontlis, in the year 1876, 1 tliiiik 

 it was, in Tuscarora, Out., among the Moluiwk 

 Indians, and made tlie acquisition of a knowl- 

 edge of their language a special ol)Jcct. I li:iii 



Rand (S. T.) — Continued. 



secured, to assist me, a Mohawk grammar 

 written in Frencli by a retired Frencli priest of 

 Montreal. I. soon learned the pronunciation so 

 well that I could read to tliem quite fluently 

 (for I took care to write the words phoneti- 

 cally), and 1 wroie out from the mouths of sev- 

 eral Indians, some of fliem educated and some 

 unedurated, buig lists of words and grammati- 

 cal iiUleclions. 



"The following winter I drvotid a gtxid <leal 

 of time to Moliawlv. I liilcd nui my l)ig liooU 

 I'ni'U (lu) Kimlisli diction. iry in :iI|ihalK'tical 



