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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.

Summary:

C. Hermann Berendt's transcription of 59 vocabulary entries in English and Miskito (Mosquito) from the second edition of George Henderson's Account of the British Settlement of Honduras (1811). Berendt's title page, as well as his notation on the cover (Mosquitos, G. Henderson, 1809), also make reference to the first edition. Berendt's version differs slightly from that in Henderson's book: the order of the languages in the columns is reversed (in Henderson's book Miskito is on the left and English on the right); the entry for the Miskito word cortee, which Henderson gives as meaning either God or moon, is listed as two separate entries; and Henderson's entry for the Miskito word soura, with English equivalent bad, is omitted. Berendt's draft version of the same list (1 leaf) is stored in the same folder as the manuscript. In the draft, he includes annotations in red ink in relation to 10 of the entries, with a note indicating that these are the Miskito words as given in Alexander Henderson's book Grammar of the Moskito language (New York, 1846). Berendt's copy of the latter is in the Rare Book Collection, Rare Books & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania. For a letter from Alexander Henderson to Berendt (30 May 1871), in which Henderson makes reference to that work, see Ms. Coll. 700 Item 127.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (p. i).
This was the first 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 + 3 + i leaves; [i-ii], [1], 2-4; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 19 lines, with English on the left and Misikito on the right.
Script: Written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.
Binding: Contemporary paper covers; sewn.
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 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. 26 (no. 129).
Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 659-660 (no. 101).
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 1).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 129

Contributor:

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

OCLC:

502141433