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Fragmento de unas exhortaciones para la observancia de los mandamientos del decálogo, en lengua zoque / por D. José Maria Sanchez, cura de Ocosocoautla.

Author/Creator:
Sánchez, José M. (José María)
Publication:
[Ocozocoautla, Mexico], 1864.
Format/Description:
Manuscript
7 leaves : paper ; 310-328 x 215-217 mm
Contained In:
Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection. Item 113
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Other Title:
Exhortaciones en lengua zoque
Subjects:
Ten commandments -- Sermons.
Ten commandments.
Zoque language -- Texts.
Sermons, Zoque.
Indians of Mexico -- Languages.
Zoque language.
Mexico -- Languages.
Mexico.
Language and languages.
Form/Genre:
Sermons.
Manuscripts, Spanish.
Manuscripts, Mexican.
Texts.
Language:
Zoque, except title page (f. iii recto) and one heading (p. 9) in Spanish, and a verse from the Bible in Latin (p. 9).
Biography/History:
Priest in Ocozocoautla, Mexico.
Summary:
Fragments of two sermons on the ten commandments in the Zoque language. Sermon 1 concerns the ten commandments in general, and sermon 2 is devoted to the first commandment. According to C. Hermann Berendt, who supplies information about the contents on the title page (f. iii recto), sermon 1 lacks the first 2 leaves (faltan las dos primeras hojas); and sermon 2 lacks a conclusion (no conduido).
Contents:
1. p. 5-8: Plática primera: sobre los diez mandamientos en gral.
2. p. 9-10: Plática segunda: sobre el primer mandamiento.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. iii recto).
Pagination: Paper, 7 leaves; ii + 3 + ii; 5, [6], 7, [8], 9, [10]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper right recto.
Script: Written in the hand of José Maria Sánchez, with cover and title page in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.
Binding: Gathering of 4 leaves, with first leaf wanting, hand-sewn together with 2 leaves preceding and 2 following; the resulting 7-leaf gathering has been set inside a paper folder, with the first and last leaf glued to the folder along the inner margin.The last leaf of the manuscript proper has also been glued to the first back flyleaf along the inner margin.
Origin: Written in Ocozocoautla, Mexico, in 1864.
Penn Provenance:
From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on upper cover).
Cited in:
Described in Brinton, Daniel Garrison. Catalogue of the Berendt Linguistic Collection (Department of Archaeology and Paleontology, University of Pennsylvania, 1900), p. 24 (no. 113).
Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 675 (no. 152).
Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 327 (no. 3676).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 113
Contributor:
Berendt, C. Hermann (Carl Hermann), 1817-1878, former owner.
Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899, former owner.
OCLC:
456412349