[Syllabary with elements of Nahuatl pictograms combined with European letters]

Place

[Perugia]

Publisher

[Pietro Giacopo Petrucci]

Date

[1579]; 1492-1600

Notes

Set of pictographs which includes Aztec or Nahuatl symbols, such as Indigenous figures, bird in a tree, symbol for house, and the Aztec god Huitzilopochtli (with serpent and shield), eagle, and others.

This book, a manual of instructions for missionaries to Mexico that described indigenous religious rites and customs, was the first book by a Mexican to be published in Europe. The author gives a firsthand account of the evangelization of Mexico.

Part of

Valades, Diego, fl. 1580
Rhetorica christiana ad concionandi, et orandi usum accommodata ...
Perusiae [Perugia]; Apud Petrumiccobum Potrutium
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