Details

Subject(s)

• Munsee language—Readers [Browse]
• Munsee language—Texts—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Munsee language—Orthography and spelling—Glossaries, vocabularies, etc [Browse]
• Indigenous peoples of North America—Education (Primary) [Browse]
• Moravian Indians—Missions [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Printer

• Miller, John Henry, 1702-1782 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Readers (Publications) [Browse]
• Prayers [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Spellers [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• readers [Browse]

Summary note

Munsee words of one syllable, compound words, and words of two, three, four, five, six, and seven or more syllables, all with their English definitions, followed by prayers, the Ten Commandments, and a catechism in Munsee language and English on facing pages.

Notes

• Signatures: pi1 A-O⁴ chi1.
• Pronunciation rules for "the English reader" on half-title verso.
• Last page blank.
• Zeisberger was a Moravian missionary who worked among the Indians for sixty-two years, from 1745 until his death in 1808. He lived with the Delawares in Pennsylvania's Wyoming Valley and followed them as they were pushed westward through the wilds of Pennsylvania to the Ohio Country. Published on the eve of the Revolution, when Zeisberger and the Moravian Indians were persecuted by patriots who assumed that the Indians were allies of the British. The Muskingum River, mentioned on the title, is in the Ohio Country.

Binding note

Contemporary quarter brown leather and speckled brown paper-covered boards.

Language note

List of Munsee words and their English defintions printed in two columns.

References

Evans, C. American bibliography, 15228

Place name(s)

United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.

Other title(s)

Delaware-Indian and English spelling-book

LCCN

98119067

OCLC

19497610

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