Details

Subjects:

Catholic Church -- Doctrines.
Catholic Church.
Catholic Church -- Catechisms -- Guarani.
Guarani language -- Texts.
Guarani language.
Indians of South America -- Languages.

Form/Genre:

Texts.
Codices.
Catechisms.
Manuscripts, German.

Language:

Guarani, with a title page in German.

Biography/History:

German scholar of indigenous American languages.

Summary:

19th-century copy of a manuscript in the language of the Guarani Indians of South America, in a question and answer format suggesting a catechism.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 1r).
Pagination: Paper, 81; [vi], 156; pagination in ink, upper outer corners.
Layout: Written in 20 lines, ruled in lead, with a catchword at the bottom of each page.
Script: Written in the hand of Emanuel Forchhammer (title page).
Binding: Modern boards; title page is detached.
Origin: Written in Leipzig in 1878.

Penn Provenance:

Copied from a manuscript in the collection of an unidentified Herr von Gülich, Leipzig, under the direction of Julius Platzmann, for Karl Henning.
From the collection of Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on verso of title page).

Cited in:

Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 296 (no. 3323).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 215

Contributor:

Forchhammer, Emanuel, 1851-1890, scribe.
Henning, Carl, former owner.
Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899, former owner.

OCLC:

181087450