ALGONQUIAN LANGUAGES. 



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Zeisberger (D.) — Continued. 



daga I and Algonquin — the Delaware [ 

 Printed from the | Original Manuscript 

 I in I Harvard college Library | This 

 edition has been published for the ''Al- 

 cove of American Native Languages" 

 in I Wellesley College Library | 



Cambridge | John Wilson and son | 

 University Press | 1887 



Title verso blank 1 1. preface pp. iii-v, text 

 pp. 1-236, sm. 4°. English, German, Onondaga, 

 and Delaware, in parallel columns. The pref- 

 ace is signed "Eben N'orton Horsford. Cam- 

 bridge, 1887." Therein Dr. Horsford says : "It 

 was no part of my purpose to edit such a work. 

 ... I have not ventured upon the task of 

 altering, or restoring, or filling out, in any in- 

 stance. . . . Every period and comma and 

 accent have been transferred without question 

 to the printed page. Where there was a blank, 

 and uniformity required a period or a comma, 

 the blank has been respected. Where a comma 

 should have been replaced by a period, or vice 

 versa, the discovery has been left to the student 

 as much as if he had the original manuscript 

 before him. . . . My aim has been to pre- 

 serve the Dictionary of the venerated Moravian 

 missionary precisely as he left it." 



Copies seen: Eames, Congress, Pilling. 



Some copies were printed on larger and bet- 

 ter paper. On the title-page of these the two 

 lines preceding the imprint and beginning 

 "This edition "are omitted. (Eames, Lenox, 

 Pilling, Powell.) 



Priced by Littlefleld, Boston, 1887, no. 344, $3 ; 

 a large paper copy, $5 ; by Koehler, no. 321, 24M. 

 The original manuscript, 362 pp. folio, is in the 

 library of Harvard University. 



There is mentioned above several manu- 

 scripts of printed works preserved in the li- 

 brary of Harvard University. These were or- 

 iginally deposited in the archives of the Mo- 

 ravian church at Gnadenhutten, Ohio, and by 

 some means afterwards fell into the hands of 

 Judge Lane of that state, who forwarded them 

 to the Hon. Edward Everett, who deposited 

 them in the above-mentioned library, where 

 they still remain. In addition to these the 

 library has also the following, which have not 

 been printed, deposited by the same hands : 



Delaware glossary, 36 11. 4°. 



Delaware vocabulary, 74 11. 4°. 



Phrases and vocabularies in Delaware, 158 II. 

 12°. 



Lltanj' and liturgies in Delaware, 56 11. 12°. 



Sermons in Delaware, 42 11. 12°. 



Church litany in Delaware, 42 11. 12°. 



Short biblical narratives in Delaware, 22 11. 

 4°. 



See Brintou (D. G.) and Anthony 



(A. S.) 



and Blanchard (I. D.) The history 



I of ! our lord and saviour | Jesus 



Christ ; | comprehending all that the | 



Zeisberger (D.) and Blanchard (I. D.)— 

 Continued. 



four evangelists | have recorded con- 

 cerning him; | all their relations being 

 brought together in one | narrative, so 

 that no circumstance is omitted, but | 

 that inestimable history is continued 

 in one series, j in the very words of 

 scripture, by the rev. Samuel | Leiber- 

 kuhn, M. A. | Translated into the | 

 Delavrare language, in 1806, | by rev. 

 David Zeisberger, | Missionary of the 

 United Brethren. | Re-translated, so as 

 to conform to the present | idiom of the 

 language, | by I. D. Blanchard. | 



J. Meeker, Printer, Shawanoe Baptist 

 Mission. | 1837. 



Second title ,- Rlathemwakunek | wtclawswa- 

 kun I nrvlalkwf krthwvalkwf | Xhesus Klyst ; 

 I cntu I jijwanukif wuntunasw | cntu | linexsif 

 tclextwnrw | mplcnhes. 1 Nhime tcli wehw- 

 mat. I 



Jawanouf, | tali kejetwn. | 1837. 



English title recto 1. 1. yerso blank, Delaware 

 title recto 1. 2 verso blank, text entirely in the 

 Delaware language pp. 5-221, 16°. 



Copies seeft: Boston Athenaeum, Pilling, 

 Powell. 



For title of an earlier edition see Zeisberger 

 (D.) 



[ ] and Luckenbach (A.) A | collec- 

 tion of hymns, | for the use of the Del- 

 aware I Christian Indians, | of the mis- 

 sions of the I United brethren, | in | 

 North America. | Second edition revised 

 and abridged by | A. Luckenbach. | 



Bethlehem : | printed by J, and W. 

 Held, I 1847. 



Title verso blank 1 1. preface (signed by 

 David Zeisberger, and dated from Goshen, River 

 Muskingum, September 30th, 1802) 1 1. contents 

 in English 3 pp. text (in Delaware with English 

 and German headings) pp. 1-166, 177-305, ap- 

 pendix 2 11. 18°. 



The church litany, pp. 1-13. — Easter-morning 

 litany, pp. 13-19. — Litany at burials, pp. 19-27.— 

 Hymns (nos. 1-439), pp. 28-166, 177-305.— 2 un- 

 numbered hymns, 2 11. 



Copies seen : American Tract Society, Dun- 

 bar, Eames, Powell. 



For title of an earlier edition see Zeisberger 

 (D.) 



" The principal authority on the Delaware 

 language is the Rev. David Zeisberger, the 

 eminent Moravian missionary, whose long and 

 devoted labors may be accepted as fixing the 

 standard of the tongue. 



"Before him no one had seriously set to 

 work to master the structure of the language 

 and to reduce it to a uniform orthography. 

 With him it was almost a life-long study, as for 

 more than sixty years it engaged hia atten* 



