Beschreibung:

DIEGO BERGAÑO (1690-1747) Arte de la Lengua Pampanga. Nuevamente Añadida, Emmendado, y reducido à methodo mas claro, por el mismo Author, siendo actual Provincial de esta su Provincia de el Santissimo Nombre de Jesus . Sampaloc: Reimpresso con las Licencias necessarias, en el Convento de Nuestra Señora de Loreto de el Pueblo de Sampaloc, 1736. 4° (195 x 140mm) Printed on rice paper, title-page and 6 preliminaries with typographic border, title with 3 woodcuts, woodcut head- and tail-pieces. (Title and 7 preliminaries browned, cracked at inner margin, small tear to lower margin of three preliminary leaves, SS 3 - 4 holed.) Modern marbled calf gilt, modern morocco-backed box. THE EXTREMELY RARE FIRST BOOK PRINTED IN SAMPALOC and the second edition of the first grammar of the Kapampangan language of Bataan and Bulacan in Manila Bay. Kapampangan bears similarities to Tagalog but with more Malay and Sanskrit words. The work was first printed in Manila at the Jesuit Press in 1729. Bergaño was the Augustinian Provincial for the Philippines and Prior of the Convent at Bacolor. Palau 27815; Medina, Manila 197; Tavera 274.