Testerian manuscript

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Description

Fragment of a catechism used by friars for Indian conversion in New Spain. It is written using a form of prehispanic pictographic writing possibly based on an earlier Nahuatl version and other symbols that could be phonetic or rebus in nature.

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Title

Testerian manuscript

Title - Spanish

Manuscrito testeriano

Date Created

c. 1531

Description

Fragment of a catechism used by friars for Indian conversion in New Spain. It is written using a form of prehispanic pictographic writing possibly based on an earlier Nahuatl version and other symbols that could be phonetic or rebus in nature.

Description - Spanish

Fragmento de un catecismo usado por frailes católicos para la conversión de los indígenas de la Nueva España. Exhibe escritura con estilo pictográfico prehispáno posiblemente basado en una versión más antigua en náhuatl y con otros símbolos que pueden ser fonéticos o jeroglíficos.

Topical Subject(s)

Catholicism
Hieroglyphics
Indians of Mesoamerica
Language
Religious books
Religious education
Catolicismo
Educación religiosa
Gente indígena de Mesoamerica
Idiomas
Jeroglíficos
Libros religiosos

Topical Subject(s) - Spanish

Catolicismo
Educación religiosa
Gente indígena de Mesoamerica
Idiomas
Jeroglíficos
Libros religiosos

Geographical Subject(s)

Mexico

Publisher

The Latin American Library

Notes (Physical)

Fourteen folios (small octavo) painted with native black ink and red and beige washes on European paper each measuring 10 x 7.5 cm.

Type of Resource

still image

Source

LAL Manuscripts Collection 49(8)

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