Details

Subjects:

Tzeltal language -- Grammar.
Mayan languages -- Grammar -- Early works to 1800.
Indians of Mexico -- Languages -- Early works to 1800.
Language and languages.
Indians of Mexico -- Languages.
Mayan languages -- Grammar.
Mayan languages.
Tzeltal language.
Mexico -- Languages -- Early works to 1800.
Mexico.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Grammars (instructional materials)
Manuscripts, Digital.
Manuscripts, Mexican.
Manuscripts, Spanish.

Language:

Spanish and Tzeltal.

Biography/History:

Dominican, died in 1572.

Summary:

A 19th-century copy of brief extracts from a 16th-century grammatical work by Ara, probably his Bocabulario de lengua tzeldal según el orden de Copanbaztla. It includes the declension of pronouns and the conjugation of the verbs to be and to make, with Spanish equivalents.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (p. 1); date range based on the date the original manuscript came into the possession of Brasseur de Bourbourg and the date of Berendt's death.
Note on title page: "El ms. original en poder del Abate Brasseur de Bourbourg."
Pagination: Paper, 11; contemporary page numbers 2-8, upper outer corners; followed by 5 blank leaves.
Binding: Notebook of a single gathering, with card covers.
Origin: Copied, between 1860 and 1875.

Penn Provenance:

Copied from an orginal which was transferred from the Dominican monastery at Ciudad Real to the abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg in 1859 (Weeks).
From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page).

Cited in:

Described in Brinton, Daniel Garrison. Catalogue of the Berendt Linguistic Collection (Department of Archaeology and Paleontology, University of Pennsylvania, 1900), pp. 20-21 (no. 92).
Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), pp. 631-632 (no. 11).
Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 51 (no. 174).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 92

Contributor:

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

OCLC:

155927525