Vocabulario de la lengua zoque de Tapijulapa / por C. Hermann Berendt.

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

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

Contributor:

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

Language:

Central American Indian (Other)

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Zoque language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Indians of Mexico--Languages.

Zoque language.

Mexico--Languages.

Mexico.

Language and languages.

Genre:

Codices.

glossaries

Manuscripts, Mexican.

Manuscripts, Spanish.

Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Controlled vocabularies.

Penn Provenance:

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

Physical Description:

10 leaves : paper ; 213 x 131 (140 x 85) mm bound to 219 x 140 mm

Contained In:

Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection. Item 110

Place of Publication:

[Villahermosa, Mexico], 1862.

Language Note:

Spanish and Zoque.

Summary:

A Spanish-Zoque vocabulary of approximately 180 words obtained from Oneciforo Mendoza, a speaker of Zoque from Tapijulapa, a pueblo in the Mexican state of Tabasco. The vocabulary is not in alphabetical order, but arranged loosely by subject. The last two pages list the words for cardinal numbers in the Zoque language. A preface by Berendt refers to Mendoza and includes brief notes on orthography.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title, attribution, and date from title page (p. [I]).

Pagination: Paper, 10; [I-III], IV, [5], 6-13, followed by three blank leaves; pagination by Berendt, upper center.

Layout: Written in 20 lines.

Script: In Berendt's hand.

Watermark: PIRIE'S Old Style.

Binding: Late 19th-century quarter leather.

Origin: Compiled in San Juan Bautista (modern Villahermosa), Tabasco, Mexico, in 1862.

Cited in:

Described in Brinton, Daniel Garrison. Catalogue of the Berendt Linguistic Collection (Department of Archaeology and Paleontology, University of Pennsylvania, 1900), p. 23 (no. 110).

Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 641 (no. 40).

Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 74 (no. 411).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 110

OCLC:

155930463