Juan Baptista de Lagunas, Arte y dictionario en lengua Michuacana (Mexico, 1574)

The grammar and dictionary of the language of Michoacan printed at Mexico in 1574, four years after a Franciscan working out of Tarecuato and Guayangareo submitted it for approval. Page one announces the book in that language rather than in Spanish; the dictionary quotes sentences collected in the field; and the modern edition that reproduces it opens by admitting that the very name of the language - tarasco or purepecha - carries a colonial episode its speakers were ashamed of.