| 释义 |
- Bibliography
{{Short description|pictoral writing system used to proselytize Christianity to indigenous Mexican peoples}}{{Infobox Writing system
| name = Testerian
| type = Pictographic
| time = 16th to 19th centuries
| languages = Various
| creator = Jacobo de Testera
| sample = Garrett Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 3a, fol. 18v-19r (C0744).jpg
}}Testerian is a pictorial writing system that was used until the 19th century to teach Christian doctrine to the indigenous peoples of 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 journal |author=Haberly, David |year=1963 |title=The Hieroglyphic Catechisms of Mexico}}
- {{cite journal |author=Leeming, Ben |year=2005 |title=Preaching With Pictures: How Hieroglyphic Catechisms Shaped Native Mesoamerican Christianity in Sixteenth-Century Mexico}}
- {{cite journal |author=Normann, Anne |year=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 |isbn=0-585-14632-2}}
{{list of writing systems}}{{Writingsystem-stub}} 1 : Auxiliary and educational artificial scripts |