1004 NORTH AMERICAN LINGUISTICS. 
[Le Boulanger (Bcv. Joseph Iguatius)] — continued. 
The next 22 leaves contain, minutely written in double, treble, and quadruple 
columns, the following prayers, hymns, catechisms, and gospels in the Illinois 
language : " Acte de foi de la presence de Dieu, Examen de Conscience, Acte do 
Contrition, Priere pour les parens &.c., Prieres pour La S"=. Messe, au Com- 
mencement, a I'evangile, au sanches, a L Elevation de L hostie, a L Elevation 
du Calice, apres L Elevation, au dernier Evangile, 1 page; Pour le Dimanohe, 
Pour le Lundi, Pour le Mardi, Autre himne des anges, Autre, Pour Le Mercredi, 
hymne du Patron, Panis Augelicus, 1 page; Pour le Jeudy, Lauda Sion Salva- 
tore, O Salutaris hostia. Pour Le Vendredi vexilla regis. Pour le Samedi avo 
maria stella, Sur Le miserere, 1 page ; Malheureuses Creatm-es, Beuissez le Seig- 
neur Supreme, 1 page; Vespres, Cantique a la Louange de la 8'"=. vierge, De pro- 
fundis, Ad te domine Levavi, Laudate Pueri, Levavi oculos. In Exitu Israel, 
Laudato Doum oes Gentes, Capitule Benedictus, Limne, Magnificat, I page; 
Petit Catechisme, Des Sacraments, 1 page ; ' Invocation en commenfant Le 
Catech., a la fin du Catechisme, Autre Catechisme, 2 pages; De Saeramentis, 
9 pages and 1 blank leaf; Explication du Decalogue, 1 page; De Cultu et 
Invocatione Sanctorum, 2"=. Command, 3=. Command, 1 page; 4 Coumiandemt, 
b". Commandemt, 1 page; 6 Command., 7. Commandemt, 8. Commandemt, 9 et 
10. Commandemts, 1 page; de Command, de L Eglise, De Ecclesia sen templo, 
Simbole des Apostres, 2 pages; S. Joan baptista, etc., 1 p.age; Dominica 1" and 
other Sunday gospels, 12 pages; Histoire de la Genese, in 35 chapiers, 13 pages. 
These are followed by 14 leaves, all of which are blank, excepting the verso 
of the 14th, which contains "Passion de Jesus C', filling one-third of the page. 
Brief grammatical forms, in single, quadruple, and quintuple columns, fill both 
sides of the next leaf and the recto of the following one, on the verso of which 
the dictionary begins with folio 1. This is written in a single column, on the 
outer margin or half page of the verso of every leaf, the inner half and recto 
being left blank. A column contains on an average about 18 French words, 
each of which is followed by a number of Illinois equivalents and phrases, 
m.iking in all about 80 lines. The total number of French words iu the dic- 
tionary is nearly 3,000. The apparent imperfections after leaves 11 and 44 are 
merely errors in numeration. LI. 82-84 are wrongly numbered 72-74. 
A manuscript note on the fly leaf says: "This manuscript was purchased for 
me by Messrs. Hector Bossange & Son at the sale of the books and manuscripts 
of M. Mai'cel, formerly the Director of the Imperial Printing Office and Member 
of the Commission of the Institute of Egypt &c., on the 9th of May 1859, at 
Paris: Hen: C. Murphy." At the sale of Mr. Murphy's library, at New York, 
in March, 1884, it was purchased for the John Carter Brown library. Provi- 
dence, R. I. 
"This volume is the production of some of the early French Missionaries 
among the Illinois. * * * The manuscript is closely written, but very plain. 
It is not the dictionary of that Language which is mentioned by Mr. Duponceau 
and Mr. Gallatin, in the possession of the former, and which, it is inferred, is a 
short vocabulary; for the words which Mr. Gallatin could not find in the latter 
are contained in this, and there are many variations, showing the particular 
tribal origin to be dift'erent. Some of the words are identical with what Mr. 
Gallatin calls the Old Algoukin, for which he gives Lahontan as authority. 
The paper on which the work is written resembles that in use 150 or 200 years 
ago. 
"A note on the fly-leaf says: 'This precious volume is an example of the su- 
perhuman eiforts with which the love of the salvation of human souls inspired 
■ the Catholic missionaries.' In fine, it is, no doubt, the most complete repertory 
of the Western Lenape in existence, and from the care ana fullness with which 
it h,as been written, has been the work of a life-time. » * * The only clue to 
