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<dl><dd>Text in Delaware and Swedish, with some headings in Latin, translatedinto the Delaware language by Johannes Campanius, and edited by Thomas Campanius Holm. Cf. Collijn, Isak: The Swedish-Indian catechism[.]Some notes. Uppsala, 1937 (accompanying facsimile ed. of the present work, published under the title: Martin Luther's Little catechism translated into Algonquian Indian by Johannes Campanius. Stockholm; Uppsala, 1937); Holmer, N.G. : John Campanius' Lutheran catechism in the Delaware language. Uppsala, 1946</dd>
<dd>Title vignette: Royal arms</dd>
<dd>Added title page, engraved : Catechismus Lutheri lingva svecico-americana</dd>
<dd>German original first published under the title : Der kleine Catechismus für die gemeine Pfarher und Prediger. Wittenberg, 1529</dd>
<dd>Signatures: a A-K</dd>
<dd>Includes: "Vocabularium barbaro-Virgineorum. Additis passim locutionibus &amp; observationibus historicis brevioribus ad linguae pleniorem notitiam. Anno MDCXVI."--p.[133]-154 lists over 300 terms in Delaware; "Vocabula Mahakuassica."--p.155-160 lists 50 terms in Mohawk and Swedish</dd>
<dd>JCB Lib. cat., 1675-1700</dd>
<dd>Sabin</dd>
<dd>Church, E.D. Discovery</dd>
<dd>Pilling, J.C. Bib. Algonquian languages</dd>
<dd>Pilling, J.C. Bib. Iroquoian languages</dd>
<dd>John Carter Brown Library copy lacks map of Nova Svecia (present in some copies), available in facsimile</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Lutheran Church; Indian linguistics; Indian linguistics</div>
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<dl><dd>Luther, Martin, 1483-1546</dd>
<dd>Campanius, Johannes, Holmiensis, 1601-1683</dd></dl></div>
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