[Extracts from Arte y vocabulario en lengua mame].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Berendt, C. Hermann (Carl Hermann), 1817-1878.

Contributor:

Reinoso, Diego de, 17th century.

Smith, Buckingham, 1810-1871.

Pimentel, Francisco, conde de Heras, 1832-1893

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

Language:

English

Mayan languages

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Mam language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Mam language.

Indians of Central America--Guatemala--Languages--Early works to 1800.

Indians of Central America.

Language and languages.

Guatemala--Languages--Early works to 1800.

Guatemala.

Genre:

Codices.

glossaries

Manuscripts, English.

Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Controlled vocabularies.

Penn Provenance:

From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton.

Physical Description:

5 leaves : paper ; 195 x 123 mm bound to 200 x 132 mm

Production:

[1868?]

Contained In:

Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection. Item 87

Other Title:

Arte y vocabulario en lengua mame

Vocabulario en lengua mame

Language Note:

English, with words in Mam and the title of Reinoso's work in Spanish.

Summary:

Transcription of a note by Buckingham Smith published in Historical Magazine 5.4 (April 1861), including bibliographical information about and slightly fewer than 150 words from the Arte y vocabulario en lengua mame of Diego de Reinoso, a 17th-century Guatemalan friar who is not the 16th-century Diego de Reinoso associated with the Popol Vuh. The words are arranged alphabetically according to their English equivalents. The vocabulary is followed by a list of cardinal numbers and a list of prepositions that Berendt attributes to the 19th-century Mexican linguist and historian Francisco Pimentel. Berendt includes some comments of his own on Smith's grammatical observations and notes the locations of copies of Reinoso's work, including the information that one copy had just been sold in Paris in January 1868 (p. 9).

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Pagination: Paper, 5 (followed by 22 blank leaves); pagination in ink, 2-9, upper center.

Layout: Notes in long lines (p. 1-2, 9); word lists in two columns (p. 2-8); number list in four columns (p. 8).

Script: In the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.

Binding: Late 19th-century half leather with gilt spine title and sprinkled edges.

Origin: Written after January 1868.

Cited in:

Described in Brinton, Daniel Garrison. Catalogue of the Berendt Linguistic Collection (Department of Archaeology and Paleontology, University of Pennsylvania, 1900), p. 20 (no. 87).

Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 671 (no. 135).

Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 313 (no. 3532).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 87

OCLC:

249102976