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Doctrina christiana en lengua chapaneca : fragmento de un manuscrito anónimo / copiado en facsímile por C. Hermann Berendt, M.D.

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 700 Item 117
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Penn Provenance:
  • Copied from an original in the possession of Don Angel Camas of Chiapas.
  • From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page).
Physical Description:
32 leaves : paper ; 213 x 174 (186 x 129) mm bound to 222 x 185 mm
Contained In:
Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection. Item 117
Place of Publication:
Tuxtla Gutierrez, 1869.
Language Note:
Chiapanec, with Spanish titles and a few Latin phrases.
Summary:
An 1869 copy of a portion of a collection of Catholic texts and prayers from the 17th or 18th century, translated into the Chiapanec language. Contents include a catechism, several acrostics and anagrams, prayers, a sermon, and a number of pen-and-ink illustrations, including a simple family tree for Jesus (p. 44), a complicated cross with a serpent at its base (p. 55); a woman praying amidst grasses or flames (p. 62); and a skeleton (p. 63).
Notes:
  • Ms. codex.
  • Title from title page (f. 3r).
  • Pagination: Paper, 32; viii, 21-36, 39-67, xiii (blank); page numbers written by Berendt.
  • Layout: Each page has a double frame in ink around the writing block; written 25 lines per page unless the text is in a special layout.
  • Script: In the hand of Carl Hermann Berendt.
  • Binding: Late 19th-century half leather.
  • Origin: Copied in Tuxtla Gutierrez in 1869.
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. 117).
  • Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 651 (no. 72).
  • Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 140 (no. 1303).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 117
OCLC:
155928805

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