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Other Title:

Mosquitos

Subjects:

Miskito language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Indians of Central America -- Honduras -- Languages.
Indians of Central America.
Language and languages.
Miskito language.
Honduras.
Indians of Central America -- Nicaragua -- Languages.
Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras).
Honduras -- Languages.
Nicaragua -- Languages.
Nicaragua.

Form/Genre:

Glossaries.
Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Controlled vocabularies.

Language:

English and Miskito, with a few notes in German (leaf tipped in, p. 16).

Summary:

C. Hermann Berendt's transcription of a list of 231 vocabulary entries in English and Miskito (Mosquito) found at the end of Thomas Young's book Narrative of a residence on the Mosquito shore(1842), along with a list of 12 additional Miskito words with English equivalent that Berendt notes separately, indicating that they are found elsewhere in Young's work (leaf tipped in, p. 16). Berendt's version differs at least slightly from that in Young's book, for instance: the order of the languages in the columns is reversed (in Young's book Miskito is on the left and English on the right); and the entries for numerals are given in a separate list at the end (p. 15). Berendt makes annotations in pencil and red ink, noting (p. 9) that those in red are based on the report published by Fellechner, Müller, and Hesse about the Mosquitia, or Mosquito coast (Bericht über die im höchsten Auftrage Seiner Königl. Hoheit des Prinzen Carl von Preussen und Sr. Durchlaucht des Herrn Fürsten von Schoenburg-Waldenburg bewirkte Untersuchung einiger Teile des Mosquitolandes, erstattet von der dazu ernannten Commission; Berlin, 1845). For Berendt's transcription of Miskito vocabulary from that work, see Ms. Coll. 700, Item 131. A few additional notes by Berendt concern various types of turtles referred to in Young's book (leaf tipped in, p. 16).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (p. 1).
This was the second of 19 manuscripts formerly bound together, probably by Daniel Garrison Brinton, and now disbound (Items 129-136, 143, 145, 146, 151-155, and 157-159). The bound volume had the spine title: Languages of Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
Pagination: Paper, ii + 8 + ii leaves; [1-3], 4-15, [16]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 20 lines with English on the left and Miskito on the right.
Script: Written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.
Binding: Contemporary paper covers; sewn. Gatherings are detached or nearly detached from each other.
Origin: Written sometime between the beginning of C. Hermann Berendt's research in the Americas in 1851 and his death in 1878.

Penn Provenance:

From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on the verso of front free endpaper in the bound volume that once contained the present item).

Cited in:

Described in Brinton, Daniel Garrison. Catalogue of the Berendt Linguistic Collection (Department of Archaeology and Paleontology, University of Pennsylvania, 1900), p. 26 (no. 130).
Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 682 (no. 181).
Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 68-70 (no. 388, document 2).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 130

Contributor:

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

OCLC:

502140491