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1Creator:  AnonymousRequires cookie*
 Title:  Dictionarioum Gallico Outaokum, interceptum Nov. 1771 [1771]     
 Dates:  Circa 1771 
 Abstract:  The volume relates to the Great Lakes region. "Age-Epei only" 
 Call #:  Mss.497.33.D564 
 Extent:  1.0 Volume(s) 
 Sections:   Administrative Information

 
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 Subjects:  Anonymous | Foreign Language | Great Lakes Region (North America) | Language and Linguistics | Native America 
2Creator:  Ord, George, 1781-1866Requires cookie*
 Title:  George Ord notes, [n.d.], on the use of French verbs     
 Dates:  n.d. 
 Abstract:  Excerpts from Voltaire and Rousseau used for examples. 
 Call #:  Mss.445.Or2 
 Extent:  1.0 Volume(s) 
 Sections:   Background  |  Administrative Information

 
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 Subjects:  French language | Language Material | Language and Linguistics | Ord, George, 1781-1866 
3Creator:  AnonymousRequires cookie*
 Title:  Mandingo dictionary, [ca. 19th century]     
 Dates:  Circa 19th century 
 Abstract:  This is a manuscript dictionary, apparently of the Mandingo language, with latin equivalents. 
 Call #:  Mss.499.22.D56 
 Extent:  1.0 Volume(s) 
 Sections:   Administrative Information

 
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 Subjects:  African American | Anonymous | Beyond Early America | Dictionaries. | Language Material | Language and Linguistics | Mandingo language 
4Creator:  Souza Palher, Joao de.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Descripcão e uso do dynamomêtro, 1807     
 Dates:  1807-1907 
 Abstract:  Descripçaó e uso De Dynamomêtro, Para contreur e comparar a forca relativa dos homens a dos cavallos e de todas as bêstas de tiro: para julgar a resistencia das maguinas... This instrument was used for measuring and comparing the relative strength of men, horses, and other beasts of burden. Also included are descriptions of other instruments, and engraved plate illustrations. 
 Call #:  Mss.531.3.So8 
 Extent:  1.0 Volume(s) 
 Sections:   Administrative Information

 
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 Subjects:  Beyond Early America | Dynamometer. | Engravings. | Foreign Language | Language and Linguistics | Scientific apparatus and instruments. | Souza Palher, Joao de. 
5Creator:  unknownRequires cookie*
 Title:  John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder papers     
 Dates:  1800-1847 
 Abstract:   none  
 Call #:  Mss.B.H35 
 Extent:  0.25 Linear feet 
 Sections:   Background  |  Scope and Contents Note  |  Administrative Information  |  Inventory  

 
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 Subjects:  Diaries | Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823 | Language Material | Language and Linguistics | Native America | Native American Materials | Oral History 
6Creator:  Buxtorf, Johann, 1564-1629Requires cookie*
 Phillips, Jonas Altamont, tr.
 Title:  Hebrew grammar     
 Dates:  n.d. 
 Abstract:  This is a manuscript translation into English by Jonas Altamont Phillips. Inside the cover is written "Translation of Buxtorf's Hebrew Grammar commenced 9th December 1824 Philadelphia" and "continued at intervals until".... 
 Call #:  Mss.492.4.B98th 
 Extent:  1.0 Volume(s) 
 Sections:   Background  |  Administrative Information

 
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 Subjects:  Buxtorf, Johann, 1564-1629 | Hebrew language | Language Material | Language and Linguistics | Phillips, Henry, Jr. | Phillips, Jonas Altamont, tr. | Religion 
7Creator:  Taylor, John,Rev.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Hebrew lexicon, [n.d.]     
 Dates:  n.d. 
 Abstract:  This lexicon was transcribed and abridged from the author's Concordance. A note by his widow says the transcription may be inaccurate, since it had not been compared with the original. 
 Call #:  Mss.492.43.T21 
 Extent:  1.0 Volume(s) 
 Sections:   Background  |  Administrative Information

 
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 Subjects:  Dictionaries. | Foreign Language | Hebrew language | Language and Linguistics | Miscellaneous | Religion | Taylor, John,Rev. 
8Creator:  AnonymousRequires cookie*
 Title:  Vocabulaire Chacta     
 Dates:  1820 
 Abstract:  The anonymous compiler of the Vocabulaire Chacta, ca.1820, gathered 149 elementary words in the Choctaw language with French equivalents, the basic numerals, and six "useful" (if not always appropriate) phrases. Arranged alphabetically by French. The notebook was donated to the American Philosophical Society by Peter Stephen Du Ponceau in 1827. 
 Call #:  Mss.497.3.V852c 
 Extent:  1.0 Volume(s) 
 Sections:   Background  |  Scope and Contents Note  |  Administrative Information

 
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 Subjects:  Anonymous | Choctaw language--Dictionaries--French | Du Ponceau , Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Language Material | Language and Linguistics | Native America 
9Creator:  Pyrlaeus, John Christopher,1713-1785.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Lexicon der Macquaischen Sprachen, [n.d.]     
 Dates:  n.d. 
 Abstract:  This volume is a dictionary of the Mohawk language. Contains Biblical and religious texts, with interlinear translation in German of Mohawk; lists of words, classified by subject (animals, etc.); paradigms; unorganized German words with Mohawk equivalents. Preceded by alphabetical index of German words, with references to pages where equivalents are used. 
 Call #:  Mss.497.33.P99 
 Extent:  1.0 Volume(s) 
 Sections:   Background  |  Administrative Information

 
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 Subjects:  Dictionaries. | Language Material | Language and Linguistics | Mohawk language | Native America | Native American Materials | Pyrlaeus, John Christopher,1713-1785. | Religion 
10Creator:  Unidentified authorRequires cookie*
 Title:  Doctrina Christiana     
 Dates:  Circa 1692 
 Abstract:  Cakchiquel language texts. Contains statement of doctrine, catechism, confessional, brief religious discourses, as well as a grammar of the Cakchiquel. 
 Call #:  Mss.497.4.D65 
 Extent:  1.0 Volume(s) 
 Sections:   Administrative Information

 
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 Subjects:  Beyond Early America | Cakchikel language | Language Material | Language and Linguistics | Native America | Native American Materials | Religion | Unidentified author 
11Creator:  AnonymousRequires cookie*
 Title:  A vocabulary of the most common words in use among the Sac & Fox Indians, n.d.     
 Dates:  n.d. 
 Abstract:  Sak and Fox words with their English equivalents. A note inside the back cover states "C.S.F. to Mrs. S.," asking her to excuse the "erroz in Spelling They are not mind (sic.). written on the night of my return from a memorable Expedition." 
 Call #:  Mss.497.F11 
 Extent:  1.0 Volume(s) 
 Sections:   Administrative Information

 
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 Subjects:  Anonymous | Fox language | Indians of North America--Languages | Language Material | Language and Linguistics | Native America | Nester, Harold 
12Creator:  unknownRequires cookie*
 Title:  Arawak manuscripts     
 Dates:  1803 
 Abstract:  Theodor Schultz was a Moravian missionary in British Guiana at the turn of the nineteenth century. The Arawak language manuscripts sent to the APS by him include both a grammatical treatise (organized upon the Latin model) ("Grammaticalische Sätze von der Aruwakkischen Sprache") and an extensive Arawak-German dictionary ("Aruwakkisch deutsches Wörterbuch, vermehrt 1803"). 
 Call #:  Mss.498.3.Sch8 
 Extent:  0.3 Linear feet 
 Sections:   Background  |  Scope and Contents Note  |  Administrative Information  |  Inventory  

 
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 Subjects:  Arawak language | Arawak language--Dictionaries--German | Beyond Early America | Dictionaries. | Indians of South America--Languages | Language Material | Language and Linguistics | Linguistics | Moravians--Missions | Native America | Native American Materials | Schultz, Theodor 
13Creator:  James, Edwin,1797-1861.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Some account of the Menomonies, with a specimen of an attempt to form a dictionary of their language, 1827     
 Dates:  1827 
 Abstract:  A brief discussion of location and the language, with list similar to that in James, A narrative of the captivity and adventure of John Tanner (1830), of Menomonee and Ojibway. 
 Call #:  Mss.970.1.J23 
 Extent:  1.0 Volume(s) 
 Sections:   Background  |  Administrative Information

 
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 Subjects:  Indians of North America--Languages | James, Edwin,1797-1861. | Language Material | Language and Linguistics | Manuscript Essays | Menominee language--Dictionaries | Native America | Native American Materials 
14Creator:  Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826Requires cookie*
 Title:  Chronological series of facts relating to Louisiana; its limits and bounds, 1804     
 Dates:  1804 
 Abstract:  Two bound documents, "A chronological series of facts relative to Louisiana" and "An examination into the boundaries of Louisiana." Prepared by Jefferson for U.S. ministers at Paris and Madrid, as a means of determining the extent of the Louisiana Purchase. Jefferson sent these to the APS with a cover letter to Peter S. Du Ponceau, dated December 30, 1817; read in the Historical and Literary Committee, 1818. Printed in Thomas Jefferson, Documents Relating to the Purchase and Exploration of Louisiana (New York, 1904). 
 Call #:  Mss.973.4.J35c 
 Extent:  1.0 Volume(s) 
 Sections:   Background  |  Administrative Information

 
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 Subjects:  Colony and State Specific History | Diplomatic History | Exploration. | General Correspondence | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Language and Linguistics | Louisiana Purchase -- Discovery and exploration. | Manuscript Essays | Military History 
15Creator:  Zeisberger, David, 1721-1808Requires cookie*
 Title:  A grammar of the language of the Lenni Lennape, or Delaware Indians, [1816]     
 Dates:  Circa 1816 
 Abstract:  A grammar, based on a Latin model. Prepared from original then in Library of United Brethren, Bethlehem. It is a description of the Delaware language and lists words and their corresponding meanings. 
 Call #:  Mss.497.3.Z3g 
 Extent:  1.0 Volume(s) 
 Sections:   Background  |  Administrative Information

 
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 Subjects:  Delaware language | Du Ponceau , Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Grammars. | Indians of North America--Languages | Language Material | Language and Linguistics | Native America | Native American Materials | Religion | Zeisberger, David, 1721-1808 
16Creator:  Zeisberger, David, 1721-1808Requires cookie*
 Title:  On the prepositions of the Onondago language, [n.d.]     
 Dates:  n.d. 
 Abstract:  This volume records Onondaga words and their usages. Prepositions discussed and exemplified in alphabetical order by the German. 
 Call #:  Mss.497.3.Z3o 
 Extent:  1.0 Volume(s) 
 Sections:   Background  |  Administrative Information

 
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 Subjects:  Indians of North America--Languages | Language Material | Language and Linguistics | Native America | Native American Materials | Onondaga language | Religion | Zeisberger, David, 1721-1808 
17Creator:  James, Edwin,1797-1861.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Conjugation of the verb "to hear" in its various forms in the Chippeway language, [ca. 1833]     
 Dates:  Circa 1833 
 Abstract:  This item contains printed sheets pasted into a volume, with manuscript notes by Peter Stephen Du Ponceau. 
 Call #:  Mss.497.J23 
 Extent:  1.0 Volume(s) 
 Sections:   Background  |  Administrative Information

 
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 Subjects:  Du Ponceau , Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Indians of North America--Languages | James, Edwin,1797-1861. | Language Material | Language and Linguistics | Native America | Native American Materials | Ojibwa language 
18Creator:  Roth, Johann Ferdinand,d. 1814.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Ein Versuch: der Geschichte unsers Herrn u. Heylandes Jesu Christi in dass Delawarische übersezt der Unami von der Marter Woche an bis zur Himmalfahrt unsers Herrn, 1770-1772     
 Dates:  1770-1772 
 Abstract:  This volume is the fifth part of a life of Jesus from Passion Week to Ascension, compiled from Gospel sources and translated from the German into the Delaware Indian language by Roth, who was a Moravian missionary at Sheshequim on the Susquehanna River. The manuscript was discovered in the house of Roth's son, Rev. John Rhodes, in 1831. Fly-leaf title: "Ein versuch, etc. The History of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ from Passion Week to his Ascension to Heaven. Translated into the Unami Dialect of the Delaware Language in the years 1770 and 1772 at Tschektschequamink on the Susquehannah ... Translated by Mr. Rhodes." 
 Call #:  Mss.232.9.R74 
 Extent:  1.0 Volume(s) 
 Sections:   Background  |  Administrative Information

 
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 Subjects:  Bible stories, German. | Biographies. | Jesus Christ. | Language Material | Language and Linguistics | Manuscript Essays | Missionaries. | Native America | Religion | Roth, Johann Ferdinand,d. 1814. 
19Creator:  Du Ponceau , Peter Stephen, 1760-1844Requires cookie*
 Title:  Essai de solution du problème philologique proposé en l'année 1823 par la commission de l'Institut de France, 1823     
 Dates:  1823 
 Abstract:  The commission of the Institut de France was charged with offering a prize on linguistics, under the will of Count Volney. Formerly, this essay was thought to have been by Baron Nicolas Massias (1764-1848), who won the Volney prize in 1828. However, the note that the volume was shipped from New York precludes that. 
 Call #:  Mss.410.D92.1 
 Extent:  1.0 Volume(s) 
 Sections:   Background  |  Administrative Information

 
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 Subjects:  Beyond Early America | Du Ponceau , Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Foreign Language | Institut de France. | Language Material | Language and Linguistics | Linguistics. | Manuscript Essays | Massias, Nicolas, baron, 1764-1848 | Philology. | Volney, C.-F., (Constantin François), 1757-1820 
20Creator:  Alexander, Caleb, 1755-1828Requires cookie*
 Title:  A grammatical institute of the Latin language intended for the use of Latin schools in the United States     
 Dates:  1794 
 Abstract:  With a covering letter from the author to Isaiah Thomas, 1793. The manuscript was published by Thomas at Worcester, 1794. 
 Call #:  Mss.470.AL2 
 Extent:  1.0 Volume(s) 
 Sections:   Background  |  Administrative Information

 
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 Subjects:  Alexander, Caleb, 1755-1828 | Education | Education -- United States -- Curricula. | Educational Material | Language Material | Language and Linguistics | Latin language--Grammar--1800-1870 | Latin language--Study and teaching | Native America | Onondaga Academy (N.Y.). | Thomas, Isaiah, 1749-1831 
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