| | Book | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | Vocabulary of the Massachusetts (or Natick) Indian language
| | | | Creator: | Cotton, Josiah, 1680-1756 | | | | | Pickering, John, 1777-1846 | | | | Publication: | Printed by E. W. Metcalf and company, Cambridge [Mass.],1829. | | | | Notes: | p. 113 erroneously numbered 112. Separate issue of the vocabulary edited for the first time by J. Pickering from a manuscript compiled by the Hon. Josiah Cotton (bearing dates 1707 and 1708) and published in the "Collections of the Massachusetts historical society." 3d ser., vol.II (1830) p. [147]-257. Some copies retain the original paging. cf. Advertisement signed J. D. [i. e. John Davis] and "Notice of the manuscript; with remarks on the author's orthography and the pronunciation of the language," signed J. P. [i. e. John Pickering] p. 4-7; and Pilling. Bibl. of the Algonguian languages. The Appendix (p. 100-113) contains "Examples from the Indian primer" of 1720 (being words of from one to fifteen syllables) ; two versions ofthe Lord's prayer from Eliot's Bible, and two from the Indian primer; "The ten commandments, from the Indian primer"; "A sermon preached by Josiah Cotton to the Massachusetts Indians in 1710"; "Extracts from a sermon in English and Indian ; the English part being in the hand-writing of Josiah Cotton, and the Indian in that of his father, John Cotton." | | | | Call #: | E77 S539 | | | | Extent: | 112 (ie 113) p. 25 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Massachuset language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc | Massachuset language -- Texts
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 2 | Title: | The logic primer: reprinted from the unique original of 1672
| | | | Creator: | Eliot, John, 1604-1690 | | | | | Eames, Wilberforce, 1855-1937 | | | | Publication: | The Burrows brothers co, Cleveland,1904. | | | | Notes: | At head of title: John ELiot. "Of the Logic primer one hundred and fifty copies have been printed and the type distributed. This is no. . "The primer is in Indian with interlinear translation. The original edition measures about three inches and three-eighths in height, by two inches and a quarter in width, and contains forty leaves not pages ... In 1889 the whole book was photographed ... at the expense of the late James C. Pilling, in an edition of six copies, and from one of these photographic reproductions the present reprint is made."--Introd. | | | | Call #: | F34ZW E42 | | | | Extent: | 94 p., facsim., 17 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Massachuset language -- Texts | Cleveland imprints 1904
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