Monday, January 13, 2014

Spanish typefaces and abbreviations in the Feria Doctrina

One of the challenges of working with Colonial Valley Zapotec material is occasionally the very difficult to read Spanish.  The following screenshot shows some of the ways in which the Spanish of this period was highly abbreviated.

I was recently lucky to be pointed to the following source on Feria's Doctrina:

http://editorial.csic.es/publicaciones/libros/10808/978-84-00-08058-7/catecismo-del-sacromonte-y-doctrina-christiana-de-.html

which is a comparison of the Feria Doctrina with a Spanish catechism of about the same time.  The author Luis Resines has transcribed many parts of the Spanish text.  I was able to use his transcription to greatly speed up the analysis of the Zapotec in this portion.   The FLEx screenshot of this paragraph is below:


(Analysis of this part is not yet complete.)

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