Details

Subjects:

Medicinal plants -- Mexico -- Yucatán (State).
Medicinal plants.
Materia medica, Vegetable.
Mexico -- Yucatán (State).
Materia medica, Vegetable -- Mexico -- Yucatán (State).
Herbs -- Therapeutic use -- Mexico -- Yucatán (State).
Herbs -- Therapeutic use.
Indians of Mexico -- Languages.
Mexico -- Languages.
Mexico.
Language and languages.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Spanish.
Manuscripts, Mexican.

Language:

Spanish, with some Maya terms.

Summary:

Handwritten copy of a manuscript by an unidentified author, which C. Hermann Berendt judged to have been written at the beginning of the 19th century (f. 1v). If the attribution of the text to Joaquin Dondé Ibarra, as suggested by William E. Gates (1924), is accepted, the original text would presumably have dated, instead, to around 1850 (as stated by Weeks). The text briefly describes 140 plants and herbs native to the Yucatán province of Mexico, including their medicinal uses. At back (p. 26-29) is a listing of all the plant names mentioned in the notebook, in roughly alphabetical order.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 1r).
Pagination: Paper, ii (newer paper) + 16 + vi + xv (newer paper) leaves; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners: [ii], [1], 2-29.
Layout: Written in 20 long lines on lined paper; list of terms at back written in 2 columns (p. 26-29).
Script:: Written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.
Binding: Contemporary soft-covered notebook of lined paper (upper cover detached) bound into late 19th-century half-leather notebook of unlined paper, with upper cover almost detached.
Origin: Written presumably in Mérida, Mexico, in September 1868 (f. 1v).

Penn Provenance:

Copied by C. Hermann Berendt from a manuscript owned by Pedro de Regil y Peón of Mérida, Mexico, a nephew of Juan Pío Pérez.
From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on verso of title page).

Cited in:

Described in Brinton, Daniel Garrison. Catalogue of the Berendt Linguistic Collection (Department of Archaeology and Paleontology, University of Pennsylvania, 1900), p. 15 (no. 60).
Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 653 (no. 77).
Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 144 (no. 1323).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 60

Contributor:

Berendt, C. Hermann (Carl Hermann), 1817-1878, former owner.
Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899, former owner.

OCLC:

79910831