Details

Subjects:

Quintana, Agustín de, -1734. Confessonario en lengua mixe.
Mixe language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Mixe language -- Texts.
Zoque language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Zoque language -- Texts.
Zapotec language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Indians of Mexico -- Languages.
Zapotec language.
Zoque language.
Mixe language.
Mexico -- Languages.
Mexico.
Language and languages.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Glossaries.
Prayers.
Translations (documents)
Manuscripts, Mexican.
Manuscripts, Spanish.
Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Texts.
Controlled vocabularies.

Language:

Spanish, Mixe, and Zoque, with some Zapotec and Chinantec.

Summary:

Notes on the Mixe language, with subjects such as geographic extent; extant literature (primarily notes on Fr. Augstín de Quintana's 18th-century Confessonario); a comparison of words for Mixe numerals with their Zoque, Zapotec, and Chinantec equivalents; a comparison of Mixe words with Zoque and Zapotec words; and parallel translations of the Lord's prayer in Spanish, Mixe, and Zoque.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. [ii]r).
Foliation: Paper, 18; [ii], 16; foliation in ink by Berendt, upper right recto.
Script: In the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.
Binding: Contemporary heavy marbled paper with label on upper cover: Lengua Mije.
Origin: Written in 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. 22 (no. 101).
Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 635 (no. 22).
Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 66 (no. 379).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 101

Contributor:

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

Contains:

Lord's prayer. Mixe.
Lord's prayer. Zoque.

OCLC:

155930801