• [A spelling book in Munsee language and English, compiled by David Zeisberger in 1776.]

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:

• Exhibition label updated on 2024-01-17. 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)
• Prayers

Publisher:

• Philadelphia : Printed by Henry Miller, 1776.

Subject:

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

Text language:

• List of Munsee 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 a 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:

• Munsee 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 Ten Commandments, and a catechism in Munsee language and English on facing pages.

Call number:

• Eng 18 94475

Location:

• Special Collections Eng 18 94475

Available online:

• arks.princeton.edu