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Manitowompae pomantamoonk sampwshanau Christianoh uttoh woh an pomantog wnssikkitteahonat [sic] God

by: Bayly, Lewis, d. 1631; Eliot, John, 1604-1690; Company for Propagation of the Gospel in New England and Parts Adjacent in America

Publication date: 1665

Topics: Christian life, Piety, Massachuset language, Indian linguistics, Imprint 1685, Imprint 1686

Publisher: Cambridge [Mass.]. : Printed [by Samuel Green] for the Right Honerable [sic] Corperation [sic] in London for the Gospelizing the Indins [sic], in New-England

Collection: jcbindigenous; JohnCarterBrownLibrary; americana

Contributor: John Carter Brown Library

Language: Algonquian

An abridged version of the second edition of Lewis Bayly's Practice of piety, first printed in English, London, 1612, and printed, then in Cambridge, Massachussets, 1665, and translated by John Eliot into the Algonquian language

Imprint follows the customary practice of giving the year printing was begun. From Eliot's letter of 29 August, 1686, to Robert Boyle, it appears that this edition was not completed and bound until the summer of 1686

Signatures: A-Y (Y8 verso blank)

Title printed within single rule border; woodcut head pieces

Evans

Sabin

Wing (2nd ed.)

Pilling, J.C. Algonquian

ESTC

Brown, J.C. Cat. 1482-1700

John Carter Brown Library copy has modern ms. letter from John Eliot to Robert Boyle tipped in to face title page

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: M. Davis: autograph in contemporary ms. hand at head of title page