Details

Subjects:

Zapotec language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Zoque language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Mixe language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Zapotec Indians.
Zoque Indians.
Mixe Indians.
Indians of Mexico -- Languages.
Mixe language.
Zoque language.
Zapotec language.
Mexico -- Languages.
Mexico.
Language and languages.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Hybrid books.
Glossaries.
Field notes.
Manuscripts, American.
Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Controlled vocabularies.

Language:

English, Spanish, Zapotec, Zoque, and Mixe.

Biography/History:

Civil engineer born in Puerto Rico; chief engineer for U. S. Navy Tehuantepec expedition, 1870-1871; dean of Engineering School at Cornell University after 1873.

Summary:

C. Hermann Berendt's copy of vocabularies in Zapotec, Zoque, and Mixe (pp. 6-27) and ethnographic notes (pp. 29-53) gathered by E. A. Fuertes for the Smithsonian Institution during a U. S. Navy expedition to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Includes Berendt's corrections of and annotations to Fuertes's work and a lithograph of Dr. C. H. Berendt's analytical alphabet for Mexican and Central American languages (American Ethnological Society, 1868) pasted inside the lower cover. Loose notes (9 items, 10 leaves), originally pasted inside the covers and now shelved with the manuscript, include drafts of material in the manuscript and a letter to Joseph Henry, secretary of the Smithsonian, criticizing the contents.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (p. 3).
Pagination: Paper, 80; [1-5], 6-53 (54-80 blank); page numbers in ink, upper right recto.
Layout: Vocabularies written in 19 lines in 5 columns (English, Spanish, Zapotec, Zoque, and Mixe) across each double page opening; notes written in 19-20 long lines on rectos, with Berendt's annotations on versos and in margins, often in red ink.
Script: In the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.
Decoration: Includes small drawings in ink to accompany field notes.
Binding: Late 19th-century boards.
Origin: Written in New York, 1872-1873.

Penn Provenance:

Copied from the manuscript submitted by E. A. Fuertes to the Smithsonian.
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. 107).
Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), pp. 655-656 (no. 86).
Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), pp. 165-166 (no. 1614).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 107

Contributor:

Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878, addressee.
Berendt, C. Hermann (Carl Hermann), 1817-1878, former owner.
Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899, former owner.

Contains:

Dr. C. H. Berendt's analytical alphabet for Mexican and Central American languages.

OCLC:

155930760