Details

Subjects:

Catholic Church -- Liturgy -- Texts.
Catholic Church.
Liturgics.
Language and languages.
Mayan languages.
Indians of Mexico -- Languages.
Mexico.
Indians of Mexico -- Languages -- Early works to 1800.
Sacraments -- Catholic Church -- Early works to 1800.
Sacraments -- Catholic Church.
Tzeltal language -- Texts.
Tzeltal language.
Mayan languages -- Texts -- Early works to 1800.
Mexico -- Languages -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

Texts.
Codices.
Manuals (instructional materials)
Manuscripts, Mexican.
Manuscripts, Spanish.

Language:

Spanish and Tzeltal, with a small amount of Latin.

Summary:

A 19th-century copy of a 1707 manuscript on the administration of some of the sacraments (baptism, viaticum, extreme unction, and marriage) in Spanish and Tzeltal.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 3r).
Pagination: Paper, 26; [viii, 1], 2-44; contemporary page numbers, upper outer corners.
Layout: Written in 2 columns (one Spanish, one Tzeltal) of 20 lines.
Binding: 19th-century notebook, bound in heavy paper, covers nearly detached; front cover has an oval label with the title Tzendal.
Origin: Copied in Tuxtla Gutiérrez (Chiapas, Mexico) in 1870.

Penn Provenance:

Copied by C. Hermann Berendt from the 1707 original then in the possession of José Hilario Aguilar, a priest in Chiapas (note, f. 4r; Berendt signature, p. 44).
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), p. 21 (no. 93).
Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), pp. 664-665 (no. 113).
Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 258 (no. 2826).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 93

Contributor:

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

OCLC:

155927531