This is a copy of a page from Francis Harrison's De Engelsche en Nederduytsche school-meester, , listed in our library as:

Author: Harrison, Francis, fl. 1732.
Title: The English and low-Dutch school-master : containing alphabetical tables of the most common words in English and Dutch ... / by Francis Harrision.
Publisher: New York : AMS Press, [1976] Description: Book 144 p. ; 18 cm. Location: Van Pelt Library Call Number: PF109 .H28 1976

This is also listed by its Dutch title as:

Author: Harrison, Francis. Title: De Engelsche en Nederduytsche school-meester. [microform] : Behelsende verschydene tafelen, na de order van A, B, in gericht van de gemeenste woorden, in 't Engels en Duytsch. : Met eenige regels en onderwysingen, waar-door de Nederduytsche inwoonders van Nort America in korten tyt de Engelsche taal mogen leeren spellen, leesen, verstaan en spreeken. Ende de Engelsche in 's gelyks mogen leeren spellen, leesen, verstaan en schryven, in de nederduytsche taal. / Obgestelt door Francis Harrison, school-meester, in Somerset-County, in Nieuw-Jersy, in America. Publisher: Nieuw-York, : Gedrukt en te koop by W. Bradfordt., 1730. Description: Book Microform [8], 144 p. ; 16 cm. (8vo) Series: Early American imprints. First series ; no. 39948. URL: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/4144 Web Link: Online version, no. 39948 Location: Van Pelt Library Microtext Call Number: Microfiche 821 no. 39948.

You can reach an on-line version of this at this link which gives a page by page PDF file of the whole book. What you will discover is that the introduction and title page is bilingual, but after a few pages, the text is mainly in Dutch, but with English topic headings.


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