Details

Subjects:

Tojolabal language -- Grammar.
Tojolabal language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Mayan languages -- Grammar.
Indians of Mexico -- Languages.
Mayan languages.
Tojolabal language.
Grammar.
Mexico -- Languages.
Mexico.
Language and languages.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Grammars (instructional materials)
Glossaries.
Manuscripts, Mexican.
Manuscripts, Spanish.
Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Controlled vocabularies.

Language:

Spanish and Tojolabal.

Summary:

Vocabulary of over 400 Spanish words in alphabetical order with Chaneabal (now known as Tojolabal) translations and a preface about the literature and geographical distribution of this dialect. Followed by notes on numbers and possessive pronouns, correspondences with words in other dialects, and the Lord's prayer.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 1r).
Pagination/Foliation: Paper, 24; pp. [ii], 1-6, ff. 7-25 (versos blank except for f. 7v); related note laid in before f. 21.
Layout: Vocabulary in three columns, with Spanish in the first column, Tojolabal in the second, and notes on correspondences to other dialects in the third.
Script: In the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.
Binding: Late 19th-century marbled cardboard.
Origin: Written in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Mexico, in 1870.

Penn Provenance:

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. 96).
Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 635 (no. 21).
Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 66 (no. 378).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 96

Contributor:

Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899, former owner.

Contains:

Lord's prayer. Tojolabal.

OCLC:

155930730