• Munsee - English spelling book by Zeisberger

Collections:

• Cotsen Children's Library
• Indigenous Cultures
• Lloyd E. Cotsen
• Delaware / Lenape
• Print Culture in Indigenous North America

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9949763123506421

Language:

• English

Creator:

• Zeisberger, David, 1721-1808

Curatorial Notes:

• Title updated. Assistance from Cindy Ruoheng Li. Valuable source of Munsee language vocabulary. Under exploration for extraction of vocabulary for a searchable database.

Extent:

• 2 unnumbered pages, 113 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 17 cm (8vo)

Format:

• Book

Type:

• Readers (Publications)

Publisher:

• Philadelphia : Printed by Henry Miller, 1776.

Subject:

• Delaware language—Orthography and spelling—Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
• Delaware language—Texts—Early works to 1800
• Delaware language—Readers
• Moravian Indians—Missions
• Indigenous peoples of North America—Education (Primary)
• Primers (Prayer books)
• Indigenous Studies
• Readers (Publications)
• Spellers

Text language:

• List of Delaware words and their English defintions printed in two columns.

Author:

• Zeisberger, David, 1721-1808

Created:

• 1776-01-01T00:00:00Z

Date:

• 1776

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/dck930c731x

Edm rights:

• No Known Copyright

Range label:

• Logical

Description:

• Signatures: pi1 A-O⁴ chi1.
• Pronunciation rules for "the English reader" on half-title verso.
• Last page blank.
• Zeisberger was an eminent Moravian missionary who worked among the Indians for sixty-two years, from 1745 until his death in 1808. He lived with the Delawares in Pennsylvania's Wyoming Valley and followed them as they were pushed westward through the wilds of Pennsylvania to the Ohio Country. Published on the eve of the Revolution, when Zeisberger and the Moravian Indians were persecuted by patriots who assumed that the Indians were allies of the British. The Muskingum River, mentioned on the title, is in the Ohio Country.

Alternative:

• Delaware-Indian and English spelling-book

Binding note:

• Contemporary quarter brown leather and speckled brown paper-covered boards.

References:

• Evans, C. American bibliography, 15228

Printer:

• Miller, John Henry, 1702-1782

Abstract:

• Delaware words of one syllable, compound words, and words of two, three, four, five, six, and seven or more syllables, all with their English definitions, followed by prayers, the 10 Commandments, and a catechism in Delaware and English on facing pages.

Call number:

• Eng 18 94475

Location:

• Special Collections Eng 18 94475