Compendio gramatical para la inteligencia del idioma Tarahumar oraciones, doctrina cristiana, pláticas, y otras cosas necesarias para la recta administracion de los Santos Sacramentos en el mismo idióma dispuesto por el P. Fr. Miguel Tellechea predicador missionero apostólico del Colegio de Nuestra Señora de Gaudalupe [sic] de Zacatecas, ministro del Pueblo de Chínipas y ex-presidente de las ...
[14], 9, [1], 162 [id est 163], [1], vi, [6] pages, [1] leaf of plates 1 illustrations, coat of arms, portrait 20 cm
Type:
Books
Catechisms
Place:
Mexico
Chihuahua (State)
Mexiko
Date:
1826
Notes:
Errata: p. [1]-[3] in last paging sequence
Full-page etching shows the author presenting a book to the Indians, who hold a shield bearing the Mexican coat of arms
Preliminary p. 7-8 blank. Page no. 63 used twice in pagination, setting the rest of the pagination of the main text off by one
Tellechea, a missionary to the Tarahumara Indians in Chihuahua, northern Mexico, presents the second grammar of the Tarahumara language (first was Puebla, 1683) as well as sermons, dialogues, and a catechism for converting the Indians
Woodcut head- and tail-pieces
García Icazbalceta, J. Apuntes 76
Palau y Dulcet (2d. ed.) vol. 23, p. 32, no. 329425
Sabin Vol. 24, p. 513, no. 94615
Viñaza, C. Bib. lenguas indígenas 419
SCNHRB has two copies.
SCNHRB c. 1 (39088013999495) blind-embossed on t.p.: José C. Garcia Marin.
SCNHRB c. 1 stamped on t.p. and p. 27: Bureau of American Ethnology Library 1896 [acc. no.] 6270.
SCNHRB c. 1 bound in plain sheepskin, title in gilt on spine, marbled endpapers, book seller's label: Jesus Calvillo ... Mexico; housed in an archival cardboard box with bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Preservation supported by the Smithsonian Women's Committee.
SCNHRB c. 2 (39088013999537) with ms. label on front paste-down: Shelf 101 / Lumholtz (Carl); inscribed in ink on 1st front free endpaper: Carl Lumholtz.
SCNHRB c. 2 stamped on 1st front free endpaper: PBRO Jose Maria Montijo.
SCNHRB c. 2 inscribed in pencil on 1st front free endpaper: Temporary deposit in Archives of American Bureau of Ethnology, May 11th 1894.
SCNHRB c. 2 stamped on t.p.: Bureau of American Ethnology manuscript vault Apr 1926.
SCNHRB c. 2 stamped on verso of t.p.: Bureau of American Ethnology Library Oct 22 1941.
SCNHRB c. 2 has occasional ink ms. corrections to text.
SCNHRB c. 2 bound in tree sheepskin, ms. paper spine label; housed in an archival cardboard box with bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Preservation supported by the Smithsonian Women's Committee. Measures 21 cm.
