Testerian
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Pictorial writing system used to proselytize Christianity to indigenous Mexican peoples
Testerian | |
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Script type | Pictographic
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Creator | Jacobo de Testera |
Time period | 16th to 19th centuries |
Direction | Boustrophedon |
Languages | Various |
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Testerian is a pictorial
Franciscan
who arrived in Mexico in 1529.
Bibliography
- Haberly, David (1963). The Hieroglyphic Catechisms of Mexico. Harvard University.
- Leeming, Ben (2005). Preaching With Pictures: How Hieroglyphic Catechisms Shaped Native Mesoamerican Christianity in Sixteenth-Century Mexico.
- Normann, Anne (1985). Testerian Codices: Hieroglyphic Catechisms for Native Conversion in New Spain (Latin America, Catholic Church, Indians, missionaries, Mexico). Tulane University.
- Robertson, Donald (1994). Mexican Manuscript Painting of the Early Colonial Period: The Metropolitan Schools. University of Oklahoma Press. pp. 53–55. ISBN 0-585-14632-2.
- Catecismo pictórico Otomí
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