Details

Subjects:

Mangue language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Chiapanec language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Indians of Central America -- Nicaragua -- Languages.
Indians of Mexico -- Languages.
Indians of Central America.
Language and languages.
Chiapanec language.
Mangue language.
Nicaragua -- Languages.
Nicaragua.
Mexico -- Languages.
Mexico.

Form/Genre:

Glossaries.
Manuscripts, Latin American.
Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Controlled vocabularies.

Language:

English, Mangue, and Chiapanec, with cover and notes in Spanish.

Summary:

List of approximately 100 vocabulary entries in English, Diria (or Chorotega; also known as Mangue), and Chiapanec. The Diria words, although not attributed, appear to be mostly transcribed from the vocabulary listed as Chorotegan or Dirian in E. G. Squier's book Nicaragua, its people, scenery, monuments, and proposed interoceanic canal (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1852; 2 vols.), including entries selected from and following the order of Squier's main comparative table of languages in Nicaragua (vol. 2, p. 320-323) and the numbers 1 to 4, from a smaller table (vol. 2, p. 314).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from upper cover.
This was the eleventh 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, vi + 3 + ix leaves; 1-5, [6 (blank)]; modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.
Layout: Written in 3 columns of 21 lines, with English on the left, and Diria and Chiapanec, respectively, to the right.
Script: Written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.
Binding: Contemporary paper covers; sewn. Gatherings partially 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. 28 (no. 143).
Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 646 (no. 56).
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 11).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 143

Contributor:

Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899, former owner.

OCLC:

537249162