cartilla.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
cartilla.
Principal English Translation: 

a small book used in teaching the important points of religious doctrine
(a loanword from Spanish)

Attestations from sources in English: 

omentin Sant. Franco Padreme mohuicaque in yancuic mexico. quinmohuiquillique 20. Juldadosme. yquac mochi ya yn ixquich ompa monequiz yn cartillas. quimomachtizque ompa tlaca yhuan ya cornedas. chirimias ҫacapoch yhuan ce organo yhuan campanas. yhuan yztac amatl clauos. yhuan oc cequi tlamantli yn ompa monequiz. moch ya yhuã quezquintin quinhuicaque officialesme yn tolteca yn quinmachtizque ompa tlaca yn ica yzqui tlamantli tequitl = two Franciscan fathers went to New Mexico; at that time they took along twenty soldiers, and everything that would be needed there went along: primers to teach the people there, and cornets, chirimías, trombones, and an organ, and bells, European paper, nails, and other things that would be needed there all went along, and they took some artisans, craftsmen, to teach the people there in all the different kinds of work (central Mexico, 1609)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 156–7.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

cuena yhuan cartillia quitemachtiaya = él enseñaba las cuentas y la cartilla (Tlaxcala, 1662–1692)
Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza, Historia cronológica de la Noble Ciudad de Tlaxcala, transcripción paleográfica, traducción, presentación y notas por Luis Reyes García y Andrea Martínez Baracs (Tlaxcala and México: Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Secretaría de Extensión Universitaria y Difusión Cultural, y Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1995), 100–101.