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First edition of this influential grammar of the Nahuatl or Aztec language by the Jesuit Horacio Carochi (1586-1666), dedicated to Juan de Ma\u00f1ozca y Zamora (1580-1650), Archbishop of Mexico. The book deals with names, prepositions, verbs, comparatives and superlatives, adverbs and conjunctives and contains a wealth of Nahuatl vocabulary. It was instrumental in visualizing the \u2018saltillo,\u2019 i.e. the Nahuatl glottal stop, with a grave accent, e.g. \u00e8. It remained a standard work on the language and was reprinted in Mexico in 1759.<\/em><\/p>\n

The first book printed in the New World was in Nahuatl: \u2018One of the main reasons for the establishment of a printing press in Mexico centred around the need for materials to aid in the \u2018spiritual conquest\u2019 of the area, the conversion of the conquered Aztec empire to Christianity. Thus it should come as no surprise that one of the first, if not the first, book printed in Mexico would be in Nahuatl. Throughout the next three centuries, the Nahuatl language continued to occupy a position of importance in the output of Mexican presses\u2019 (John Frederick Schwaller, \u2018A Catalogue of pre-1840 Nahuatl Works Held by the Lilly Library\u2019 in The Indiana University Bookman, No. 2 (1973), p. 69. <\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

There are legal records dating to the late C17th and early C18th in city of Toluca referring to a man by the name of Domingo Martinez de Castro; there is also a record of a man by this name whose sister, a nun, applied for custody of a slave. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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