Details

Subjects:

Pipil language -- Grammar.
Indians of Central America -- Guatemala -- Languages -- Early works to 1800.
Language and languages.
Indians of Central America.
Pipil language.
Guatemala -- Languages -- Early works to 1800.
Guatemala.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Grammars (instructional materials)
Manuscripts, Nahuatl.
Manuscripts, Spanish.
Manuscripts, Latin American.

Language:

Spanish and Pipil.

Summary:

A grammar for the Pipil language, predominantly in Spanish with Pipil examples.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from 19th-century title page (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, 31; iii (added title page and two leaves without foliation), 184-211; foliation is later than the text, added after the text had already suffered some damage; numbers in black ink, upper right recto.
Binding: 19th-century quarter leather.
Condition: First three leaves and last leaf faded, damaged, and repaired; spine separating from front cover; some tears in gutter (ff. 189-191).
Origin: Written in Guatemala in the 18th century.

Penn Provenance:

Bookplates inside upper cover: Ex Collectione Americana, Domini Brasseur de Bourbourg; Alph. Pinart, Sol Oriens Discutit Umbras, Série E.3, No. 114.
From the collection of Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page).

Cited in:

Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 52 (no. 192).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 186

Contributor:

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

OCLC:

155928973