Compendio gramatical para la inteligencia del idioma Tarahumar
Subtitle: oraciones, doctrina cristiana, pláticas, y otras cosas necesarias para la recta administracion de los Santos Sacramentos en el mismo idióma
By: dispuesto por el P[adre] Fr[ay] Miguel Tellechea predicador missionero apostólico del Colegio de Nuestra Señora de Gaudalupe [sic] de Zacatecas, ministro del Pueblo de Chínipas y ex-presidente de las Missiones de la Tarahumara.
Contributors: Starr, Frederick, 1858-1933, former owner.; Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Imprenta de la Federacion en Palacio
Published: 1826
Place of publication: Mexico
Language: spa; cai
Number of pages: 163
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Catechisms -- Tarahumara; Tarahumara language; Tarahumara Indians -- Missions -- Mexico -- Chihuahua (State)
Notes: Tellechea, a missionary to the Tarahumara Indians in Chihuahua, northern Mexico, presents the second grammar of the Tarahumara language (first was Puebla, 1683) as well as sermons, dialogues, and a catechism for converting the Indians.

Full-page etching shows the author presenting a book to the Indians, who hold a shield bearing the Mexican coat of arms.

Preliminary p. 7-8 blank. Page no. 63 used twice in pagination, setting the rest of the pagination of the main text off by one.

LC Copy 1 inscribed by the author to "F... de las Casas, de la Federación." Has LC accession no. D1387 dated [19]01. In library buckram.

García Icazbalceta, J.  Apuntes 76

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Viñaza, C.  Bib. lenguas indígenas 419