Details

Subjects:

Tzotzil language -- Grammar.
Mayan languages -- Grammar.
Indians of Mexico -- Languages.
Mayan languages.
Tzotzil language.
Mexico -- Languages.
Mexico.
Language and languages.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Grammars (instructional materials)
Manuscripts, Mexican.
Manuscripts, Spanish.

Language:

Spanish and Tzotzil.

Summary:

Notes on the grammar of the Tzotzil language perhaps from the early 19th century, almost entirely in Spanish with a few words of Tzotzil, with a slightly later title page probably added by the abbé de Bourbourg.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 2).
Foliation: Paper, 18; i + 15 + ii; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive hand.
Binding: 19th-century quarter leather.
Origin: Written in Mexico in the first half of the 19th century?

Penn Provenance:

Bookplates inside upper cover: Ex Collectione Americana, Domini Brasseur de Bourbourg; Alph. Pinart, Sol Oriens Discutit Umbras, Série E.3, No. 62.
From the collection of Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page).

Cited in:

Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 322 (no. 3628).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 198

Contributor:

Brasseur de Bourbourg, abbé, 1814-1874, former owner.
Pinart, A. L. (Alphonse Louis), 1852-1911, former owner.
Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899, former owner.

OCLC:

155932875