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Codex canadensis
''Codex canadensis'' is a handwritten and hand-drawn document from circa 1700 that depicts the wildlife and native peoples of Canada. It contains 180 drawings of First Nations' people, plants, mammals, birds and fish of the New World. As the manuscript was neither signed nor dated, many attributed its writing to Bécart de Granville. It is currently kept at the Gilcrease Museum.
==Author==
Scholars have more recently discovered that the author was probably Louis Nicolas, a French Jesuit. The ''Histoire Naturelle des Indes Occidentales'', a document recently discovered at the National Library of Paris, is speculated to have also been written by Nicolas and provides an in depth description of the animals, fish and plants of Canada, which are all depicted in the ''Codex Canadensis''. The author of the ''Histoire Naturelle'' also mentions that the descriptions of his observations are accompanied by illustrations: “…toute sorte de bons poissons, qu’on ne voit pas dans nôtre Europe, dont je vous donneray a la fin de mon Histoire naturelle, les noms, les figures, et les portraits…”. The author of the latter document signed his work M.L.N.P, which recalls the initials of the ''Grammaire Algonquine'' 's author, Louis Nicolas.〔 Furthermore, in the ''Grammaire''’s preface, the author specifies that he has placed at the end of his book an extra section on the history of the country: "...On a mis à la fin de cette grammaire un petit supplément de l’histoire du pays...". The ''Codex Canadensis'' and ''Histoire Naturelle des Indes Occidentales'' could easily be the supplement Louis Nicolas refers too. Indeed, the similarities between the ''Codex Canadensis'', the ''Histoire Naturelle'' and the ''Grammaire Algonquine'' make it reasonable to believe that all three documents were written by the same man, Louis Nicolas, Priest and Missionary.〔
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