Details

Other Title:

Oraciones y platicas en lengua pipil

Subjects:

Catholic Church -- Sermons.
Catholic Church.
Language and languages.
Indians of Central America.
Pipil language.
Guatemala.
Sermons, Nahuatl.
Pipil language -- Texts.
Indians of Central America -- Guatemala -- Languages -- Early works to 1800.
Guatemala -- Languages -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

Sermons.
Codices.
Manuscripts, Spanish.
Texts.

Language:

Pipil and Latin, with a later Spanish title page.

Summary:

A 18th-century group of sermons or religious talks in the Pipil language on topics including John 6.55 (Qui manducat carnem meam, the Eucharist), John 3.1 (Erat homo ex Phariseis), Luke 11.27-28 (In illo tempore loquente Jesu ad turbas), and St. Nicholas of Tolentino. Scriptural references in the text are often in Latin. The original foliation suggests that this manuscript was removed from a larger volume; in its current form it has a title page added by the abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 1).
Foliation: Paper, 11; modern pencil foliation, lower right recto; ff. 3-11 have the original foliation 56-57, 62-64, 68-71. This record uses the modern foliation.
Layout: Written in 38-39 long lines.
Binding: 19th-century boards with a leather spine; paper label on spine, 101.
Origin: Written in Guatemala in the 18th century?

Penn Provenance:

Bookplates inside upper cover: Ex Collectione Americana, Domini Brasseur de Bourbourg; Alph. Pinart, Sol Oriens Discutit Umbras, Série E.3, No. 47. Paper label on front flyleaf: Collection E. Boban, Antiquaire à Paris. Label on upper cover: Geo. A. Leavitt & Co., Auctioneers, New York, no. 2396.
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. 295-296 (no. 3319).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 194

Contributor:

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

OCLC:

155932832