DOCTEINA — DOMENECH, 929 
Doctrina — continued. 
105C b Doctrina y Confesiouario | en lengua Ixil. | Precededos 
de un corto modo para apren- | der la lengua, y Ritual de Matri- 
monio | por | el Cura P4rroco de IS^ebah | 1824. | dgb. 
Origiual mauuscript, 28 11., the first one and last seven being blank, with 
modern title, 1 1. In fair condition. 
1056 c Doctrina y praticas devotas con otras oraciones sacadas 
del catecismo, lo todo en lengua tzoque. • 
Manuscript. 2311. 4°. Coarse writing of the seventeenth century. Title from 
the Pinart Sale Catalogue, No. 313. 
Doctrine Chrestienne * * en langage Canadois. See [Breboeuf 
{B. P. Jean)], No. 463. 
Dog Rib Primer. See [Bompas (Ect. William Carpenter)], No. 404. 
1061 a Domenech {Abbe Emmanuel). Manuscrit | Pictograpbique | 
Am6ricain | precede d'une | Notice sur I'ldeograpbie | des Peaux- 
Kouges I par | rAbb(5 Em. Domenech | Missionaire apostolique, 
chanoine bonoraire de Montpelier | Membre de I'Academie pon- 
tificale tiberine, de la Societe geograpbique de Paris | et de la 
Societe etbnographique orientale et aiuericaiue de France. | 
Ouvrage | public sous les auspices de M. le Ministre D'Etat | et 
de la Maison De L'Empereur | 
Paris I GideLibraire OEditeur | 5 Eue Bonaparte [ 1860. | b.t.dgb. 
Pp. i-viii, 1-119. 8°. 228 plates. 
This work is justly celebrated, and is now very rare, for the government of 
Napoleon III. made strenuous efforts to recall the copies which had been sent to 
learned societies and persons, as well as to libraries, throughout the world, and 
those which had been sold. 
In a lengthy preliminary notice the learned editor gives an account of various 
other American MSS., and of the circumstances attending the origin and dis- 
covery of what he is pleased to entitle the Liire des muvayes. He comes to tho 
conclusion that it was the work of some sachem of tho Indians of Canada, versed 
in the secret institutions of his tribe, and that it must be assigned to the seven- 
teenth century. It was found in an old wooden box which was deposited in the 
BibUudieqiic de rjiscnal of Paris, nearly a century before its fortunate discovery. 
While modestly disclaiming the ability to reveal all the recondite mysteries of 
the manuscript, the learned churchman and ethnologist gives an interpretation 
of the signs and hieroglyphs, which occupies sixty-two octavo pages. 
Then follow two hundred and twenty-eight pages, each containing a fac- 
simile of one of those of the mysterious book — even those in blank. The size 
and shape of these pages are preserved, and even the rents and dog's ears are 
carefully delineated. The figures, done in charcoal, or with a coarse crayon, 
are exactly reproduced, those portions which in tho original had been colored 
with red chalk or crayon being so indicated. 
After publication it was determined that the editor had been the victim of a 
cruel hoax, and that the precious manuscript was the work of sonu' idle boy, 
judging from sundry written words prol)ably a German, of impure mind and 
little artistic ability. No end of ridicule lias been hi'ai)ed upon the nul'ortunato 
abbd because of his discovery in such rubl)ish of the totems and signatures of 
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