Author: Mason, Sophia Thomas, William Mason, and John Sinclair, trans. [Rev. Mr. Steinhauer]
Title: Oski Testement Ketipeyichikeminow Mina Kipimachiyiweminow Chisas Knist (New Testament in Cree)
Description: London, Printed by William Mavor Watts for the British and Foreign Bible Society, 1862. Leather Bound. pp. 292. 8vo. Original plain brown leather binding, with Watkins bindery sticker to rear pastedown. Loss to leather over spine and along edges, endpapers glued to gutters, text block stable, contents clear and unmarked. Peel 387: "Title also transliterated as Otiki tititemitot. Title and text in syllabics devised by James Evans; only imprint is in English. Cree is Western (or Plain) Cree dialect." Printed in two columns. "Although the three works last titled have the name Rev. Wm. Mason on their respective title pages, denial has been made in a number of instances that they were translated by him..", instead having been translated by John Sinclair and Rev Mr Steinhauer, the manuscript of their translations entrusted to Mason, who took it to England for printing. - Pilling Algonquin p. 339-340. Darlow & Moule 3129. Following the 1859 printing (which contained 612 pages). .

Keywords: Otiki tititemitot; Bible; First Nations


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