Details

Subjects:

Popoloca language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Indians of Mexico -- Languages.
Popoloca language.
Mexico -- Languages.
Mexico.
Language and languages.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Glossaries.
Manuscripts, Mexican.
Manuscripts, Spanish.
Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Controlled vocabularies.

Language:

Spanish and Popoloca.

Summary:

A brief vocabulary list of Spanish words with their equivalents in the Popoloca language of the community of Oluta, in the Mexican state of Verzcruz. Words arranged by subject, concluding with cardinal numbers. The list ends on f.6r of an otherwise blank volume of 32 leaves.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (p. 1).
Pagination: Paper, 6; [iv, 1-3,] 4-7; pagination in ink, upper outer corners; followed by 26 blank leaves.
Layout: List (pp. 3-7) written in two columns (Spanish on the left, Popoloca on the right) of 20 lines.
Script: Written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.
Binding: Late 19th-century quarter leather.
Origin: Written in Frontera (in the state of Tabasco), Mexico, in 1862.

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. 25 (no. 123).
Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 641 (no. 39).
Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 74 (no. 410).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 123

Contributor:

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

OCLC:

155933066