Details

Subjects:

Mangue language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Indians of Central America -- Nicaragua -- Languages.
Indians of Central America.
Language and languages.
Mangue language.
Nicaragua -- Languages.
Nicaragua.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

Spanish and Mangue.

Biography/History:

Teacher of French and Spanish grammar at the University of León; author of a Spanish grammar (León, 1858).

Summary:

Copy of notes made on the Mangue language by Juan Eligio de la Rocha while living in Masaya, Nicaragua, in 1848, including brief lists of vocabulary arranged by subject, numerals, and conversational phrases.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (p. [1]).
Pagination: Paper, 6; [1-5], 6-11; pagination in ink by C. Hermann Berendt, upper center.
Script: Written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.
Watermark: Antique Parchment Note Paper (in Gothic letters under a crowned shield).
Binding: Late 19th-century half leather.
Origin: Copied in Granada, Nicaragua, in 1874.

Penn Provenance:

Copied from Rocha's notes, provided by his brother, Jesus de la Rocha (p. 4).
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. 140).
Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 671 (no. 136).
Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 318 (no. 3581).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 140

Contributor:

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

OCLC:

155932834