Details

Subjects:

Catholic Church -- Doctrines -- Early works to 1800.
Catholic Church -- Catechisms -- Zapotec.
Catholic Church.
Mysteries of the Rosary.
Zapotec language -- Texts.
Indians of Mexico -- Languages -- Early works to 1800.
Language and languages.
Indians of Mexico -- Languages.
Zapotec language.
Mexico -- Languages -- Early works to 1800.
Mexico.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Catechisms.
Prayers.
Translations (documents)
Manuscripts, Mexican.
Manuscripts, Spanish.
Texts.

Language:

Zapotec and Spanish.

Biography/History:

Spanish-born Dominican friar who served in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Summary:

Manuscript copy by C. Hermann Berendt of the second edition of Levanto's Cathecismo, printed in 1776, including facsimile title page in pencil, Levanto's note to the reader, the Cathecismo, Explicacion, and Mysterios del Santísimo Rosario, but lacking some of the printed edition's front matter. Where Levanto's Explicacion de la doctrina christiana is printed in double columns for Spanish and Zapotec, Berendt places the translations on facing pages, Spanish on the left and Zapotec on the right. Berendt's attribution of the Mysterios del Santisimo Rosario to Fr. Jacinto Vilches is not in the printed edition. Contents includes texts of prayers (Lord's prayer, Ave Maria, Apostles' Creed); lists of the ten commandments, articles of faith, and virtues and vices; an explication of Catholic faith in the form of a catechism; and prayers on the mysteries of the Rosary.

Contents:

1.p.2-34: Cathecismo de la doctrina christiana, en lengua zapoteca de Valle.
2.p.35-65: Explicacion de la doctrina christiana.
3.p.67-82: Mysterios del Santísimo Rosario / por el R. P. Presentado Fr. Jacinto Vilches.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. [1]r).
A detached flyleaf and five leaves that were loose or pasted to other leaves, now detached, including the facsimile title page, are shelved with the manuscript.
Pagination: Paper, 43; [iv, 1], 2-82; 29 leaves at end of volume are blank; contemporary pagination in ink, upper center.
Script: Written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.
Binding: Late 19th-century blank book, boards over lined paper; label on inside of upper cover for Stationers' Hall, 15 Nassau and 14 Pine Streets, New York, P. W. Derham.

Penn Provenance:

From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on flyleaf).

Cited in:

Described in Brinton, Daniel Garrison. Catalogue of the Berendt Linguistic Collection (Department of Archaeology and Paleontology, University of Pennsylvania, 1900), p. 22-23 (no. 104).
Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 662 (no. 105).
Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 227 (no. 2434).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 104

Contributor:

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

Contains:

Vilches, Jacinto.
Lord's prayer. Zapotec.
Ave Maria. Zapotec.
Apostles' Creed. Zapotec.
Ten commandments. Zapotec.

OCLC:

166141424