Details

Subject(s)

• Indigenous peoples of North America—Languages [Browse]
• Algonquian languages—Glossaries, vocabularies, etc [Browse]
• Algonquian languages—Grammar [Browse]
• Congregational churches—Catechisms [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Editor

• Mayhew, Experience, 1673-1758 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Catechisms [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Catechisms [Browse]
• Primers (Instructional books) [Browse]
• Juvenile literature [Browse]

Series

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 5976. [More in this series]

Contains

Cotton, John, 1584-1652. Spiritual milk. [Browse]

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 ... Washington, D.C. : G.P.O., 1891.
• "Spiritual milk for babes ... By John Cotton."--p. 30-79.

Reproduction note

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 5976).

References

• Evans 5976
• Heartman, C.F. Non-New England primers, 91

Other format(s)

Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.

Place name(s)

United States Massachusetts Boston.

Other title(s)

Indiane primer asuh Negonneyeuuk.

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