Bucabulario de la lengua castellena ! y zapoteca nexitza se acabó a 16 de nobienbre 1696 años
A seventeenth-century manuscript vocabulary of Spanish and Zapotec, handwritten in 1696 and apparently compiled for Spanish speakers learning the Zapotec language of Oaxaca. The first picture shows dense lines of Zapotec words in brown ink with a large decorated initial letter, and the second shows a title page with a flourished heading, a cramped script, and small rough sketches of figures and animals in the margins. A designer could take from them the irregular rhythm of hand-lettered text, the faded paper tones, and the loose, doodle-like marks of the sketches.
