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In 1699 Cotton Mather published a 16-page catechism in Spanish, La Fe del Christiano. The only three surviving copies reveal a hastily printed catechism riddled with improvisations and errors. To get an “ñ,” as in Señor (Lord), the anonymous typesetter split a fragment of a double long “ff” serif. Mather’s catechism was printed in miniature: […]