Manuscrit pictographique américain
Subtitle: précédé d'une notice sur l'idéographie des Peaux-Rouges
By: par l'abbé Em. Domenech. Ouvrage publié sous les auspices de m. le ministre d'état et de la maison de l'empereur.
Contributors: Biliothèque de l'Arsenal.; France. Ministère d'Etat et de la maison de l'empereur.
Publisher: Gide
Published: 1860
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 119
Subjects: Livre des sauvages; Picture-writing, Indian; Indians of North America -- Writing
Notes: Plates printed on both sides and numbered 1-228.
Reproduction of a manuscript (no. 8022) preserved in the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal at Paris and designated by the title "Livre des sauvages". The publication of this manuscript, claimed by its editor to be a specimen of the picture-writing of the American Indians, called forth numerous articles and pamphlets, attacking its authenticity. Among these are Julius Petzholdt's "Das buch der wilden" im lichte französischer civilisation, Dresden, 1861, and J. P. Meissner's Wahre erklärung des "Buches der wilden", Leipzig, 1862.