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Other Title:

Arte y vocabulario en lengua mame
Vocabulario en lengua mame

Subjects:

Mam language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Indians of Central America -- Guatemala -- Languages -- Early works to 1800.
Language and languages.
Indians of Central America.
Mam language.
Guatemala -- Languages -- Early works to 1800.
Guatemala.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Glossaries.
Manuscripts, English.
Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Controlled vocabularies.

Language:

English, with words in Mam and the title of Reinoso's work in Spanish.

Summary:

Transcription of a note by Buckingham Smith published in Historical Magazine 5.4 (April 1861), including bibliographical information about and slightly fewer than 150 words from the Arte y vocabulario en lengua mame of Diego de Reinoso, a 17th-century Guatemalan friar who is not the 16th-century Diego de Reinoso associated with the Popol Vuh. The words are arranged alphabetically according to their English equivalents. The vocabulary is followed by a list of cardinal numbers and a list of prepositions that Berendt attributes to the 19th-century Mexican linguist and historian Francisco Pimentel. Berendt includes some comments of his own on Smith's grammatical observations and notes the locations of copies of Reinoso's work, including the information that one copy had just been sold in Paris in January 1868 (p. 9).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Pagination: Paper, 5 (followed by 22 blank leaves); pagination in ink, 2-9, upper center.
Layout: Notes in long lines (p. 1-2, 9); word lists in two columns (p. 2-8); number list in four columns (p. 8).
Script: In the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.
Binding: Late 19th-century half leather with gilt spine title and sprinkled edges.
Origin: Written after January 1868.

Penn Provenance:

From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton.

Cited in:

Described in Brinton, Daniel Garrison. Catalogue of the Berendt Linguistic Collection (Department of Archaeology and Paleontology, University of Pennsylvania, 1900), p. 20 (no. 87).
Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 671 (no. 135).
Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 313 (no. 3532).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 87

Contributor:

Reinoso, Diego de, 17th century.
Smith, Buckingham, 1810-1871.
Pimentel, Francisco, conde de Heras, 1832-1893.
Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899, former owner.

OCLC:

249102976