Details

Subjects:

Chiapanec language -- Grammar.
Chiapanec language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Cofradías (Latin America).
Indians of Mexico -- Languages.
Chiapanec language.
Grammar.
Mexico -- Languages.
Mexico.
Language and languages.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
First drafts.
Grammars (instructional materials)
Glossaries.
Notes (documents)
Manuscripts, Mexican.
Manuscripts, Spanish.
Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Controlled vocabularies.

Language:

Spanish and Chiapanec.

Summary:

A collection of drafts of notes on Chiapanec grammar, idioms, phrases, history, geography, family names, alphabet, numerals, and calendar. Also includes notes from cofradía ordenanzas, a copy by Berendt of a map of Chiapa prepared by D. Julian Grajales in 1868, and the text of the Lord's prayer in Chiapanec.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 1r).
Detached notes (4 leaves) are housed separately and shelved with the manuscript.
Notes in this manuscript include material in draft form that appears in final form in Item 116, Item 117, and Item 120 of Ms. Coll. 700.
Foliation: Paper, 33; modern pencil foliation, upper right recto, 1-32, skipping a leaf glued in between leaves 3 and 4.
Binding: Late 19th-century boards with cloth spine.
Origin: Written in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico, in 1869 and 1870.

Penn Provenance:

Copied from a variety of sources or composed by C. Hermann Berendt.
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. 25 (no. 121).
Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 635 (no. 23).
Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 66 (no. 380).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 121

Contributor:

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

Contains:

Lord's prayer. Chiapanec.

OCLC:

155928878