Testerian

Infobox Writing system
name = Testerian
type = Pictographic
time = 16th to 19th centuries
languages = Various
creator = Jacobo de Testera

Testerian is a pictorial writing system that was used until the 19th century to teach Christian doctrine to Indians in Mexico, who were unfamiliar with alphabetic writing systems. Its invention is attributed to Jacobo de Testera, a Franciscan who arrived in Mexico in 1529.

Bibliography

*cite paper |author=Haberly, David |date=1963 |title=The Hieroglyphic Catechisms of Mexico
*cite paper |author=Leeming, Ben |date=2005 |title=Preaching With Pictures: How Hieroglyphic Catechisms Shaped Native Mesoamerican Christianity in Sixteenth-Century Mexico
*cite paper |author=Normann, Anne |date=1985 |title=Testerian Codices: Hieroglyphic Catechisms for Native Conversion in New Spain
*cite book |author=Robertson, Donald |year=1994 |title=Mexican Manuscript Painting of the Early Colonial Period: The Metropolitan Schools |publisher=University of Oklahoma Press |pages=53–55