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Subjects:

Jesus Christ -- Passion.
Jesus Christ.
Passion of Jesus Christ.
Zoque language -- Texts.
Zoque Indians -- Rites and ceremonies.
Holy Week -- Mexico.
Indians of Mexico -- Languages.
Holy Week.
Zoque Indians.
Rites and ceremonies.
Zoque language.
Mexico -- Languages.
Mexico.
Language and languages.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Spanish.
Manuscripts, Mexican.
Texts.

Language:

Zoque, with Spanish only for title page (f. 2r) and attestation (f. 1v).

Summary:

Texts in the Zoque language relating to the Passion of Christ, in the hand of José M. Sánchez, a priest in Ocozocoautla, in the Mexican state of Chiapas; an attestation by C. Hermann Berendt, dated from Tuxtla Gutiérrez, 5 April 1870, reads: Obsequii de D. José M. Sanchez (f. 1v). Presumably the texts represent chants sung by the Indians of Chiapas during Holy Week, as documented by Sánchez. The manuscript begins with what appears to be a brief prayer in Zoque (f. 3r), followed by fragmentary texts under three headings that appear to be referring to the Passion according to John (secundum Joane; f. 3r), the Passion according to Matthew (secundum Mateum; f. 6r); and the story of the raising of Lazarus (Lasari, f. 3v; Lasarro, f. 5r). Water damage has discolored most of each leaf (f. 3-6).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 2r).
Foliation: Paper, 8; [1-2 (paper endleaves), 3-6, 7-8 (paper endleaves)]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Layout: Written in 22-24 long lines.
Script: Written in the hand of José M. Sanchez, except for title page and attestation by C. Hermann Berendt.
Binding: Contemporary cardboard.
Origin: Written in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Mexico, ca. 1870.

Penn Provenance:

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. 24 (no. 114).
Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 667 (no. 121).
Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 284 (no. 3175).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 114

Contributor:

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

OCLC:

477407736