G78 NORTH AMERICAN LINGUISTICS. 
Sahagun (Bernardino de) — coutiuued. 
3442 Evangeliarium | Eijistolarium et Lectionarium | Aztecwm 
Sive Mesicanum | ex antiquo codice Mexicauo nuper reperto | de- 
promj)tum | cum prsefatione interpretatioue adnotationibus glossa- 
rio I Edidit | Bernardinus Bioudelli | 
Mediolani | Typis Jos. Bernardoui Q.™ Joliaunis | MDCCCLVII 
[1857J I s. 
4 pp. 4°. Title, p. 1. — P. 2, conditions, 450 copies in 5 joarts eacb, at 20 francs 
each, and names Triibner, Franz of Munich, and Bernaidoni, to whom subscrip- 
tions could be sent. — P. 3, a Latin announcement, in which it is said to be the 
loug lost work of Sahagun, whose name, the editor states, was on the cover of the 
manuscript. — P. 4, a fac-simile of part of the mauuscrijit difi'ering from that given 
in the volume, thongh purporting to be of the same part, and a specimen of the 
■ Mexican and Latin texts. 
3443 Evangeliarium | Epistolarium et Lectionarium | Aztecum 
Sive Mexicanum | ex antiquo codice Mcxicano nuper reperto | de- 
promptum | cum prsefatione interpretatioue adnotationibus glossa- 
rio I Edidit | Bernardinus Bioudelli. | 
Mediolani | Typis Jos. Bernardoui Q.-" Johannis | MDCOCLVIII 
[1858]. I B. c. s. 
Pji. i-slix, fac-simile of page of Mexican manuscript, 1 1., pp. 1-574. 4°. 
This work is based on a Mexican niannsoript on maguey paper, written in 1532 
" for the nse of Father Dominic de Canizarez", and forming a folio of 250 images, 
one leaf being lost; but it contained merely references for two feasts, as a\>- 
pears by an index of later date. It was found by Beltrami in 1826, iu a library 
in Mexico, as he himself tells in his Mexique, vol. 2, p. 167. (See, also, Revue 
Encyclopedique, vol. 32, p. 611.) 
As F.ather Bernardiue de Sahagun, who came to Mexico in 1529, is said by 
Torquemada (vol. 3, p. 487) to have written " a very elegant Postil on the Epis- 
tles and Gospels for the Sundays" of the year, Beltrami concluded that this was 
the work, which was regarded by Torquemada as lost, Sahagun's manuscripts 
having been taken to Spain by a governor, who gave them to a historian. When 
Bioudelli acquired the manuscript after Beltrami's death, in 1854, and begau to 
prepare it for the press ; he found, however, that it did not contain Postils — 
that is, homilies on the Epistles and Gospels — but a very faithful Mexican trans- 
lation of the Epistles and Gospels themselves, without the slightest comment. 
The Gospels are selections from the Four Evangelists which are read in the mass, 
and the Epistles are selections from the rest of the New and from the Old Testa- 
ment, read also in the mass before the Gospels. They differ for each Sunday and 
Holiday ; and religious orders having special holidays have some additional ones, 
forming what is called a "Proper." This manuscript follows the Franciscan 
proper. The manuscript is, therefore, not the Postil of Sahagun; Irat as Father 
Canizarez was one of his disciples, it may be a translation made or revised by Sa- 
hagun. As priests are required on Sundays to read the Epistle and Gospel to the 
people in the vernacular and explain them, this translation may be older than the 
date of this copy. Sahagun in three years could scarcely be able to make so per- 
fect a translation. 
Bioudelli gives the Mexican text with the Latin from the Missal, in parallel 
columns. His introduction contains, pp. xxi-xxxix, a short treatise on the Mex- 
ican language, De Lingua Azteca, p. xxi ; Generales Lingute Azteca> Proprie- 
tates, including the conjugation of the verb, &c., p. xxiii ; De AfBnitatibus Lin- 
guaj Nahuatl cum aliis, p. xxs; specimen of vocabulary, pp. xxxviii-xxxix ; he 
gives a facsimile of a page of the Mexican manuscript, following p. xlix; and 
adds a Glossarium Azteco Latinum, pp. 427-553. 
