Details

Subjects:

Jesus Christ -- Passion -- Early works to 1800.
Jesus Christ.
Cofradías (Latin America) -- Early works to 1800.
Chiapanec language -- Texts.
Indians of Mexico -- Languages -- Texts.
Indians of Mexico -- Languages.
Chiapanec language.
Cofradías (Latin America).
Passion of Jesus Christ.
Chiapas (Mexico) -- Religious life and customs.
Mexico -- Languages.
Mexico.
Language and languages.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Rules (instructions)
Manuscripts, Mexican.
Manuscripts, Spanish.
Texts.

Language:

Chiapanec, with an introduction in Spanish.

Summary:

A 19th-century copy of the 18th-century ordenanzas, or rules, of three confraternities in the pueblo of Suchiapa, Mexico, including portions of the Passion sung in church during Holy Week. The first two sets of ordenanzas have concluding sections titled "Domingo de Ramos." The second set of ordenanzas also has at its end a note by Berendt concerning a 19th-century note in another copy of the ordenanzas. Brief information in Spanish about the confraternities and the texts that were copied precedes the Chiapanec texts (pp. vii-viii).

Contents:

1. pp. 1-28: Las ordenanzas de la Cofradia de la Santa Cruz, 1780.
2. pp. 29-64: Las ordenanzas de la Cofradia de Jesus Nazareno, 1781.
3. pp. 65-94: Las ordenanzas de la Cofradia de Nostra Señora del Rosario, 1723.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (p. [v]); according to Berendt's introduction, the dates probably represent the dates that the copies that were his sources were made.
A rough draft by Berendt of his introduction is glued to one of the front flyleaves added in binding.
Pagination: Paper, 52; x, [1], 2-93, [94]; contemporary page numbers in ink, upper center, except on section title pages.
Layout: Written in 24 lines per page on lined paper.
Script: In the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.
Decoration: Several 1.5- or 2-line initials in red ink, one with a rather intricate box surrounding it (p. 86).
Binding: Late 19th-century half leather.
Origin: Copied in the Chiapas province of Mexico in 1870.

Penn Provenance:

Copied from multiple copies, including those kept by the confraternities in Suchiapa.
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. 25 (no. 120).
Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 667 (no. 122).
Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 284 (no. 3174).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 120

Contributor:

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

OCLC:

155928873