Franklin

Languages of Chiriqui and Darien.

Publication:
[1872-1876?]
Format/Description:
Manuscript
1 volume : paper ; 202-208 x 122-134 mm bound to 215 x 150 mm + 1 note
Contained In:
Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection. Items 162-165, 167-175, 218, and 219
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Subjects:
Cuna language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Guaymi language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Guatuso language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Indians of Central America -- Panama -- Languages.
Indians of South America -- Colombia -- Languages.
Indians of South America.
Indians of Central America.
Language and languages.
Guatuso language.
Guaymi language.
Cuna language.
Colombia.
Indians of Central America -- Costa Rica -- Languages.
Panama -- Languages.
Panama.
San Blas Coast (Panama).
Colombia -- Languages.
Costa Rica -- Languages.
Costa Rica.
Form/Genre:
Glossaries.
Maps (documents)
Manuscripts, American.
Manuscripts, English.
Manuscripts, Spanish.
Manuscripts, Latin American.
Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Controlled vocabularies.
Language:
English, Spanish, and Cuna (various dialects), with some Guaymi, Guatuso, Cueva, Chibcha and German.
Summary:
Fifteen individual manuscripts, in contemporary paper covers, bound together (Ms. Coll. 700, Items 162-165, 167-175, 218, and 219). All of the manuscripts were prepared by C. Hermann Berendt, based on material from various authors. Most of the items pertain to the languages spoken by Indians of Panama and northwestern Colombia. Only two items are on other topics: Item 162 concerns the Guatuso Indians of Costa Rica; and Item 175, the Chibcha language of the plain of Bogotá. With respect to the dating of the manuscripts, Item 168 is dated New York 1873; Item 164 was begun in New York in late 1872 and completed in 1873; and 10 additional items (Items 163, 167, 169, 170, 171,172, 173, 174, 218, and 219) have been tentatively dated to 1873, based on their similar appearance and content, which is likewise reflected in the paper that Berendt delivered before the American Ethnological Society in New York in November 1873, entitled: The Darien language (American Historical Record, vol. 3, no. 26, February 1874, p. 54-59). Item 175, although on a different topic, is drawn directly from a work that Berendt consulted for the same paper. Finally, Item 162 is dated 1876, and Item 165 probably dates to 1876 as well. Item 168 contains two maps. A pencilled note pertaining to the binding of the volume (Bind covers & all; front paper cover, Item 163) is probably in the hand of Berendt. The volume has a table of contents at the front that is in a different hand. A small rectangular piece of paper related to Item 175 is housed in a separate folder that is shelved with the bound volume.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title from spine.
Individual records for the component works may be found by doing the following title search in Franklin: Languages of Chiriqui and Darien.
Script: Written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt, except Item 162, which consists of a leaf tipped in that was copied for Berendt by an acquaintance, Dr. Flint.
Binding: 19th-century half calf over marbled boards.
Origin: Of the 15 component works, 13 were probably written in New York in 1873 (Item 164 was begun in late 1872). Of the remaining two, Item 162 was written in 1876, probably in Nicaragua; and Item 165 was probably written in New York in 1876.
Penn Provenance:
From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on verso of front free endpaper and on the front paper cover of the first component work, Item 163).
Cited in:
Described in Brinton, Daniel Garrison. Catalogue of the Berendt Linguistic Collection (Department of Archaeology and Paleontology, University of Pennsylvania, 1900), p. 30-31 (no. 162-165, 167-175).
Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 641-642 (no. 43), p. 646 (no. 55), p. 649 (nos. 66 and 67), p. 654 (no. 79), p. 656 (no. 88), p. 659 (no.100), p. 663-664 (no. 110), p. 670 (no. 132), p. 676 (no. 157), p. 682 (nos. 178, 179, and 180).
Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 67-68 (no. 387).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Items 162-165, 167-175, 218, and 219
Contributor:
Berendt, C. Hermann (Carl Hermann), 1817-1878, former owner.
Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899, former owner.
OCLC:
63635885