Noticia de la lengua huasteca
Subtitle: que en beneficio de sus nacionales, de orden del Il[ustrísi]mô S[eño]r Arzopispo de esta Santa Iglesia Metropolitana, y a sus expensas
By: da Carlos de Tapia Zenteno, Cura, que fuè de la Iglesia Parrochial de Tampamolon, Juez Eclesiastico de la Villa de los Valles, Commissario del Santo Oficio de la Inquisicion, Cathedratico de Prima de Lengua Mexicana en esta Real Universidad, y el primero en el Real, y Pontificio Colegio Seminario,  Examinador Synodal de este Arzobispado, y Capellan Mayor del Monasterio de Santa Inès ; con cathecismo, y doctrina christiana para su instruccion, segun lo que ordena el santo concilio mexicano, enchiridion sacramental para su administracion, con todo lo que parece necessario hablar en ella los neoministros, y copioso diccionario para facilitar su inteligencia.
Contributors: Castaño, Bartolomé, 1601-1672.; Villavicencio, Manuel de, fl. 1762-1795, engraver.; Lorenzana, Francisco Antonio, 1722-1804.; Spanish-American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress); Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: En la Imprenta de la Bibliotheca Mexicana, en el Puente del Espiritu-Santo
Published: 1767
Place of publication: Mexico
Language: spa
Number of pages: 128
Subjects: Huastec language -- Grammar; Huastec language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
Genres: Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
Other titles: Corona B.M.V. (Super septem verbis)
Notes: Huastec, the northern-most dialect of the Maya language, was spoken in the 17th and 18th centuries in Puebla, Veracruz, and San luis Potosí.

The author, an important Mexican linguist, dedicated this work to Archbishop Francisco Antonio Lorenzana, who paid for the book's publication.

Title within ornamental border.

Licenses dated 1746.

Originally published 1747.

The edition of 1746 with title "Arte de la lengua huasteca," as quoted by Ludwig, Lit. of Amer. aborig. lang., p. 83, and by Viñaza, Bibl. españ. de lenguas indíg. de Amér. no. 323, cannot have existed, since the author in his dedicatory letter to the archbishop and in his preface states that although the licenses for printing were issued in 1746, the printing of the book had to be delayed until the archbishop ordered it printed at his expense.

Signatures: A-R⁴.

Woodcut coat of arms at head of leaf A1, signed Manuel Villavic[enci]o sc[ulpcit] M[e]x[i]c[o]. Another woodcut head-piece, initial, tail-piece.

Watermarks visible on flyleaves and pastedowns.

"Diccionario [castellano-] huasteco" printed in columns, p. 46-88.

"Doctrina christiana fielmente traducida de la que escribiò el R. P. Bartholomé Castaño de la Compañia de Jesus" also printed in columns,  p. 96-128.

LC Copy 1 quarter bound in calf with paste paper over boards. Has ink stamp: Library of Congress, City of Washington, 1875.

García Icazbalceta, J.  Apuntes 73

Maggs Bros. Bibliotheca americana 4678

Medina, J.T.  México 5187

Palau y Dulcet (2d. ed.) vol. 22, p. 434-435, no. 327486

Sabin vol. 24, p. 455-456, no. 94355

Viñaza, C.  Bib. lenguas indígenas 355