Saturday, September 13, 2014

St Dominic cures a demoniac: Tentative matching between Zapotec and Spanish

Much of Aguero (1666) is monolingual Zapotec, but most of it seems to be translated from Spanish originals.  Locating similar Spanish texts is key to working out the Zapotec.  The following Zapotec exemplum ("St Dominic cures a demoniac")  seems to me to a probable match for the miracle of the Rosary in Alonso Fernandez (here).







The likely correspondence in Alonso Fernandez is the following:











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