The Indian primer or The first book. : By which children may know truely to read the Indian language. : And Milk for babes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mayhew, Experience, 1673-1758, editor.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 2124.

Language:

Algonquian (Other)

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Languages.

Indians of North America.

Algonquian languages--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Algonquian languages.

Algonquian languages--Grammar.

Congregational churches--Catechisms.

Congregational churches.

Genre:

Grammars.

Catechisms.

Primers (Instructional books) -- 1720.

Juvenile literature -- 1720.

Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Controlled vocabularies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (3 unnumbered pages, 4-84, 4-84 pages, 1 unnumbered page) : illustrations

Other Title:

Indiane primer asuh Negonneyeuuk.

Place of Publication:

Boston: : Printed by B. Green., 1720.

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Added title page: Indiane primer asuh Negonneyeuuk.

Text in an Algonquian dialect and in English on facing pages; facing pages have duplicate numbering.

Differs extensively from the Indian primer of John Eliot. Dialect adaptations probably by Experience Mayhew. Cf. Pilling, J.C. Bibliography of the Algonquian languages, 1891.

Seal of Massachusetts Bay (Reilly 930), pages [1], 1st count, and cut of the ship Royall Charles (Reilly 1124) on last page.

"Spiritual milk for babes ... By John Cotton."--p. 30-46.

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 2124).

Cited in:

Evans 2124

Heartman, C.F. Non-New England primers, 90

Contains:

Cotton, John, 1584-1652. Spiritual milk.

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