Details

Subjects:

Jesus Christ -- Childhood -- Drama.
Jesus Christ.
Mangue language -- Texts.
Indians of Central America -- Nicaragua -- Languages.
Indians of Central America.
Language and languages.
Mangue language.
Children.
Childhood of Jesus Christ.
Nicaragua -- Languages.
Nicaragua.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Plays (performing arts compositions)
Manuscripts, Spanish.
Texts.
Drama.

Language:

Spanish with some words in Mangue.

Summary:

C. Hermann Berend't transcription of the text of a theatrical presentation about the baby Jesus, in Spanish with words in Mangue, from Catarina (or, by its Mangue name, Namotivá), in the Masaya district of Nicaragua. A draft version of the manuscript, bearing the same title, is housed in a separate folder shelved with the manuscript; the draft has a title page dated May 1874, and contains a note signed by Berendt, dated 16 May 1874, indicating that it was copied at the house of Nicolas Borjes [?].

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (p. [vii]); there is also a cover title on the original paper cover, Mangue: Loga del Niño Dios (p. [i]).
Pagination: Paper, 10; [x, 1], 2-10; pagination in ink by Berendt, upper center.
Layout: Written in 20 long lines.
Script: Written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.
Watermark: HAND MADE and LONDON.
Binding: Late 19th-century half leather; upper cover detached.
Origin: Written in Santa Catarina, Nicaragua, in 1874.

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. 27 (no. 141).
Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 663 (no. 109).
Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 231 (no. 2485).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 141

Contributor:

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

OCLC:

155932816