Cultural Readings - Trilingual Catechism

CULTURAL READINGS: Colonization & Print in the Americas

Trilingual Catechism
Rosenbach Museum & Library Doctrina christiana y catecismo para instruccion de los Indios...
Lima: Antonio Ricardo, 1584.

This trilingual catechism - in Spanish, Quichua, and Aymara - was the second book printed in Lima and sought to provide missionaries with linguistic tools for converting Indians.

First page of this catechism

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Rosenbach Museum & Library	Doctrina christiana y catecismo para instruccion de los Indios... Lima: Antonio Ricardo, 1584.
This trilingual catechism - in Spanish, Quichua, and Aymara - was the second book printed in Lima and sought to provide missionaries with linguistic tools for converting Indians.