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Jacobita.

Headword: 
Jacobita.
Principal English Translation: 

"Jacobite," a European name, taken by some Nahuas; e.g. Martín Jacobita was one of the literate trilingual Nahuas who participated in the composition of the Florentine Codex

See Sell's comments in Bartolomé de Alva, A Guide to Confession Large and Small in the Mexican Language, 1634, eds. Barry D. Sell and John Frederick Schwaller, with Lu Ann Homza (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 28.

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Writing, Literacy