552 NOETH AMERICAN LINGUISTICS. 
Olmos [Fr. Andres de) — continued. 
This work is dedicated, in Latin letter very chaste and very learned, to the 
Bishop of Tlascalla, D. Fr. Martin de Hojaoastro, he being Comisario-General of 
New Spain. Torquemada recommends the worli for learning this idiom, and for 
teaching it to others. 
There is in the library of the Santa Iglesea of Toledo a manuscript of the Arte 
y Vocabulario Megicanos of P. Olmos, and the original was seen by Sr. Eguiara 
in the pueblo of Tlanepantla. Betancur asserts that the works in Huaateca are 
preserved in Ozolvania, a town in Tampico. I have seen the greater number of 
the works in Mexican in the library of the College of San Gregory in Mexico. — 
Beristaiti. 
2818 Grammaire | de | laLanguelSTahnatl | ouMexicaine, | com- 
posee, en 1547, J par le Franciscain Audr(5 de Olmos, | et | publi6e 
avec notes, 6claircissements, etc. | Par K(5mi Simeon. | [Design.] 
Paris. I Imprimerie Nationale. | M DCOCLXXV[1875J. | bp. tc. 
2 p. ll.,pp. i-xv, 1-274. 8°. Inti'oduction, pp. xiii-xv; Epistola Nvncvpatoria, 
p. 3; Prologo al Lector, p. 7 ; Primera parte, x). 13 ; Segvnda parte, p. 68 ; Tercera 
parte, p. 171; Indice, p.265; Table, p. 2()7. 
"The above work is printed from two manuscripts, one in the Bibliothfeque 
Nationale, the other belonging to ns. This last is now in the valuable collection 
of M. Pinart. See my former catalogue, No. 1097."— iec?e)-e, 1878, No. 2330. 
From statements made by the author in the several manuscripts of the Arte 
made by him, it is doubtful whether it was jjrinted in 1555 as stated by Beristain 
and his predecessors. There are four of these manuscripts known to exist: one 
in the possession of M. Aubin, of Paris; a second belonging to M. Alph. Pinart 
and described in the Leclerc Catalogue of 1878, No. 2330; a third in the Biblio- 
thfequc Nationale at Paris; and a fourth formerly belonging to the late Senor 
Ramirez, now in the Bancroft Library, San Francisco, where I have seen it. In 
the sale catalogue of his books the statement is made that Sr. Ramirez con- 
sidered the copy belonging to M. Aubin as the oldest, the next in date that in 
the National Library, and the most modern his own. The latter two are very 
fully described by .Sr. Icazbalceta (Apuntes, No. 88, and additions and corrections 
thereto) and their differences pointed out. From this description I take the fol 
lowing : 
"That this Arte (or another by the same author) was printed in Mexico in the 
year 1555, 1 have always doubted, and now doubt the more, in that in this manu- 
script of 1563 nothing is said of its having been printed eight years before, 
although the author gives a history of the book. Certain it is that no one claims 
to have seen the edition of 1555, and the opinion favorable to its existence is sup- 
ported, so far as I know, by but one passage, not very clear, in the additions to 
the Biblioteca Universa Franciscana of Fr. Juan de San Antonio. 
" Still less do I believe in the existence of the Arte y Vocabulario de Las Len- 
guas Mexicana, Totonaca y Huasteca, which, it is asserted, was printed in Mexico, 
1560, 2 vols. 4°." See No. 2819 of this catalogue. 
2819 Gramatica et Lexicon Linguse Mexicanse, Totonaqme et 
Hnastecae. 
Mexico, 15G0. * 
2 vols. 4°. Title from Clavigero. Vater gives the dates 1555, 1560. TheMith- 
ridates, vol. 3, pt. 3, p. 92, gives the title also, and adds : Cum Catechismo, Evan- 
geliis, Epistolisque Mexicanioe. Mexico, 1560, 2 vols. i°. Neither Beristain, 
Brunet, Rich, nor Ternaux-Compans mentions this work. It probably never was 
printed. 
