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Early Modern · 1651
Catechism in Eight Days
Cathechismus
Alexandre de Rhodes · 1593–1660
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What it is
A catechism in parallel Latin and Vietnamese, published with a dictionary and grammar using a romanised script the Jesuits had developed.
Why it lasted
The first printed book in the romanised Vietnamese script that Vietnam still uses today as its national writing system.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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