Testerian
Script type	Pictographic
Creator	Jacobo de Testera
Period	16th to 19th centuries
Direction	Boustrophedon
Languages	Various
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Testerian is a pictorialwriting system that was used until the 19th century to teachChristian doctrine to theindigenous peoples of Mexico, who were unfamiliar withalphabetic writing systems. The invention ofTesterian catechisms is attributed toJacobo de Testera, aFranciscan who arrived in Mexico in 1529.

• Haberly, David (1963).The Hieroglyphic Catechisms of Mexico.Harvard University.
• Leeming, Ben (2005).Preaching With Pictures: How Hieroglyphic Catechisms Shaped Native Mesoamerican Christianity in Sixteenth-Century Mexico.
• Normann, Anne (1985).Testerian Codices: Hieroglyphic Catechisms for Native Conversion in New Spain (Latin America, Catholic Church, Indians, missionaries, Mexico).Tulane University.
• Robertson, Donald (1994).Mexican Manuscript Painting of the Early Colonial Period: The Metropolitan Schools. University of Oklahoma Press. pp. 53–55.ISBN 0-585-14632-2.
• Catecismo pictórico Otomí

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