Text in Delaware and Swedish, with some headings in Latin, translatedinto the Delaware language by Johannes Campanius, and edited by Thomas Campanius Holm. Cf. Collijn, Isak: The Swedish-Indian catechism[.]Some notes. Uppsala, 1937 (accompanying facsimile ed. of the present work, published under the title: Martin Luther's Little catechism translated into Algonquian Indian by Johannes Campanius. Stockholm; Uppsala, 1937); Holmer, N.G. : John Campanius' Lutheran catechism in the Delaware language. Uppsala, 1946

Title vignette: Royal arms

Added title page, engraved : Catechismus Lutheri lingva svecico-americana

German original first published under the title : Der kleine Catechismus für die gemeine Pfarher und Prediger. Wittenberg, 1529

Signatures: a A-K

Includes: "Vocabularium barbaro-Virgineorum. Additis passim locutionibus & observationibus historicis brevioribus ad linguae pleniorem notitiam. Anno MDCXVI."--p.[133]-154 lists over 300 terms in Delaware; "Vocabula Mahakuassica."--p.155-160 lists 50 terms in Mohawk and Swedish

JCB Lib. cat., 1675-1700

Sabin

Church, E.D. Discovery

Pilling, J.C. Bib. Algonquian languages

Pilling, J.C. Bib. Iroquoian languages

John Carter Brown Library copy lacks map of Nova Svecia (present in some copies), available in facsimile

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