Arte de la lengua chiapaneca / compuesto por el R. P. Fr. Juan de Albornoz de la Órden de Predicadores; copiado de un MS. en poder del Abate Brasseur.

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Albornoz, Juan de.

Contributor:

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

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

Language:

Central American Indian (Other)

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Chiapanec language--Grammar.

Indians of Mexico--Languages--Early works to 1800.

Indians of Mexico--Languages.

Chiapanec language.

Grammar.

Mexico--Languages.

Mexico.

Language and languages.

Genre:

Codices.

grammars (instructional materials)

Manuscripts, Spanish.

Penn Provenance:

Copied from a manuscript in the possession of the abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg.

From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page).

Physical Description:

34 leaves : paper ; 232 x 177 (186 x 133) mm bound to 234 x 192 mm

Contained In:

Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection. Item 116

Place of Publication:

Mérida de Yucatan, 1870.

Language Note:

Spanish with Chiapanec examples.

Summary:

A late 19th-century copy of Albornoz's late 17th-century grammar of the Chiapanec language, including chapters on orthography, the parts of speech, conjugation, and syntax. Two folded leaves glued to the first blank page following p. 40 contain Berendt's draft copy of the last four chapters.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from title page (f. 3r).

Albornoz's closing paragraph seems to give the date 1691 for the original manuscript (p. 40).

Pagination: Paper, vi, [I-V], VI, [1], 2-40, xii; 2 leaves glued in following p. 40; contemporary page numbers in ink, upper outer corners.

Layout: Written in 30 long lines, with the main text on lined paper.

Script: In the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.

Binding: Late 19th-century half leather.

Origin: Copied in Mérida, Mexico, in 1870.

Cited in:

Described in Brinton, Daniel Garrison. Catalogue of the Berendt Linguistic Collection (Department of Archaeology and Paleontology, University of Pennsylvania, 1900), p. 24 (no. 116).

Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 630 (no. 6).

Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 43 (no. 68).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 116

OCLC:

155928803