Compendium of the Christian Doctrine in the Portuguese and Brasílica Language

Frontispiece of the 1687 edition; according to Serafim Leite, the exact year of printing is this one, and not 1678, as recorded on the cover.

Compendium of the Christian Doctrine in the Portuguese and Brasílica Language (Portuguese: Compêndio da doutrina cristã na língua portuguesa e brasílica) is a catechism by John Philip Bettendorff, published in 1687 in the city of Lisbon. It was the last book on the Old Tupi language printed by the Society of Jesus in the Brazilian colonial period and the first whose author was an active Jesuit in the Amazon. It had a second edition printed in 1800, reissued also in Lisbon by José Mariano da Conceição Veloso.

It is sometimes regarded as the most inaccessible of the Tupi works printed by the Jesuits in the 16th and 17th centuries; the only Tupinologist who had access to the first edition was Antônio Lemos Barbosa. Two copies of this first edition are known, one in the National Library Foundation of Rio de Janeiro and another in the National Library of Spain.

Bibliography

• Arenz, Karl; Barros, Cândida; Gauz, Valeria (2019). "Um Catecismo Amazônico" [An Amazonian Catechism]. Anthropos (in Portuguese). 114 (1). JSTOR 26790644.

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