Details

Other Title:

Passion en lengua mexicana
Pasión de Nro. Señor Jesuchristo en la lengua zoque.

Subjects:

Jesus Christ -- Drama.
Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ -- Passion.
Passion of Jesus Christ.
Nahuatl language -- Texts.
Nahuatl language.
Indians of Mexico -- Languages.
Mexico -- Languages.
Mexico.
Language and languages.

Form/Genre:

Drama.
Texts.
Codices.
Passion plays.
Manuscripts, Mexican.
Manuscripts, Spanish.

Language:

Nahuatl, with title and character list in Spanish.

Summary:

A manuscript of a passion play in the Nahuatl language, prefaced with a list of characters.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (f. 1r); incorrectly listed in Weeks as Pasión de Nro. Señor Jesuchristo en la lengua zoque.
Foliation: Paper, 44; modern pencil foliation, 1-43 beginning on f. 2, lower outer corners.
Layout: Written in 29 long lines; pricking visible at inside margins.
Binding: Late 19th-century half leather.
Origin: Probably written in Mexico, possibly in the first half of the 19th century.

Penn Provenance:

From the collection of Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on f. 1).

Cited in:

Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 284 (no. 3172).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 200

Contributor:

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

OCLC:

166481128