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Pacion de Juebes Santo quesi yospaque tzesi iscohina is año de 1818 a 18 de marzo.

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Format:
Manuscript
Contributor:
Berendt, C. Hermann (Carl Hermann), 1817-1878, former owner.
Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899, former owner.
Language:
Central American Indian (Other)
Subjects (All):
Jesus Christ--Passion.
Jesus Christ.
Passion of Jesus Christ.
Chiapanec language--Texts.
Chiapanec language.
Indians of Mexico--Languages--Texts.
Indians of Mexico.
Indians of Mexico--Languages.
Mexico--Languages.
Mexico.
Language and languages.
Genre:
Manuscripts, Mexican.
Texts.
Penn Provenance:
From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on paper folder).
Physical Description:
4 leaves : paper ; 310 x 220 mm bound to 332 x 230 mm
Contained In:
Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection. Item 119
Other Title:
La Pasion de Jueves Santo en lengua chapaneca, 1818.
Place of Publication:
[Mexico], [1818]
Language Note:
Chiapanec.
Summary:
An account of the Passion in the Chiapanec language probably chanted during Holy Week.
Notes:
Ms. gathering.
Title from caption title (f. 1r); La Pasion de Jueves Santo en lengua chapaneca is Berendt's title for this item.
A copy of a Zoque version of this text, with the same date, is the third text in Ms. Coll. 700 Item 115, which also includes a brief preface by Berendt about the chanting tradition.
Binding: Gathering sewn with red wool; Berendt placed the item in a paper folder with a Spanish title.
Condition: Delicate paper, with many small tears at the edges and around the stitches; a remnant of a contemporary paper cover is behind the last page.
Origin: Written in Mexico, in 1818.
Cited in:
Described in Brinton, Daniel Garrison. Catalogue of the Berendt Linguistic Collection (Department of Archaeology and Paleontology, University of Pennsylvania, 1900), p. 25 (no. 119).
Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 668 (no. 123).
Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 284 (no. 3171).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 119
OCLC:
155928853

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