Details

Subjects:

Catholic Church -- Doctrines.
Catholic Church.
Zoque language -- Grammar.
Zoque language -- Texts.
Indians of Mexico -- Languages -- Early works to 1800.
Language and languages.
Indians of Mexico -- Languages.
Zoque language.
Mexico -- Languages -- Early works to 1800.
Mexico.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Catechisms.
Grammars (instructional materials)
Manuscripts, Mexican.
Manuscripts, Spanish.
Texts.

Language:

Spanish and Zoque.

Summary:

A 19th-century copy of a 17th-century grammar of the Zoque language, preceded by prayers and a catechism in Zoque and followed by an index.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (p. [i]); attribution by the abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg in his Bibliothèque mexico-guatémalienne (p. 18).
Pagination: Paper, [vi], 57; pagination in upper outer corners, in Berendt's hand.
Layout: Written in 30 lines per page on lined paper.
Script: In the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.
Binding: 19th-century half leather; front cover nearly detached.
Origin: Copied in Mérida de Yucatan in 1870.

Penn Provenance:

Copied from a manuscript dated 1652 in the possession of the abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg, sold to him by the Dominicans of San Cristobal in 1859 (p. [iii]).
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. 23 (no. 108).
Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 632 (no. 12).
Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 52 (no. 191).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 108

Contributor:

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

Contains:

Lord's prayer. Zoque.
Ave Maria. Zoque.
Ten commandments. Zoque.
Apostles' Creed. Zoque.

OCLC:

155928975