Details

Subjects:

Tzeltal language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Mayan languages -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc. -- Early works to 1800.
Indians of Mexico -- Languages -- Early works to 1800.
Language and languages.
Indians of Mexico -- Languages.
Mayan languages.
Tzeltal language.
Mexico -- Languages -- Early works to 1800.
Mexico.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Glossaries.
Manuscripts, Mexican.
Manuscripts, Spanish.
Manuscripts, Latin American.
Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Controlled vocabularies.

Language:

Spanish and Tzeltal.

Summary:

A copy, probably made in the 17th century, of an alphabetical list of Spanish names, words, and phrases, with translations in Tzeltal.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, 198 (no leaf 35, unnumbered leaf between 80 and 81); contemporary numbers, upper right recto.
Script: Copied in two hands, ff. 1-120 and ff. 120-198.
Binding: 19th-century boards.
Condition: Extensive worm damage, ff. 83-106, minor worm damage present throughout.
Origin: Probably copied in the 17th century, location unknown.

Penn Provenance:

Bookplate inside front cover: Ex Collectione Americana, Domini Brasseur de Bourbourg.
A transcript of a portion of a 1922 letter from Adela C. Breton to G. B. Gordon attached to the pages before the manuscript suggests that this manuscript was not part of the Berendt collection but passed through the collections of the abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg, A. L. Pinart, and Eugène Boban before Daniel Garrison Brinton purchased it separately.
From the collection of Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 185

Contributor:

Brasseur de Bourbourg, abbé, 1814-1874, former owner.
Pinart, A. L. (Alphonse Louis), 1852-1911, former owner.
Boban, Eugène, former owner.
Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899, former owner.

OCLC:

155927515