Doctrina christiana en lengua zoque.

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)

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--Doctrines--Early works to 1800.

Catholic Church.

Zoque language--Texts.

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

Language and languages.

Indians of Mexico--Languages.

Zoque language.

Mexico--Languages--Early works to 1800.

Mexico.

Genre:

Codices.

prayers (compositions)

Manuscripts, Mexican.

Texts.

Penn Provenance:

Gift of Don José Maria Sanchez, cura de Ocosocantla, to C. Hermann Berendt, 1870 (18th-century fragments).

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

Physical Description:

76 leaves : paper ; 153 x 114 mm bound to 160 x 130 mm

Contained In:

Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection. Item 112

Place of Publication:

[Mexico], [between 1736 and 1870]

Language Note:

Zoque, with brief notes in Spanish.

Summary:

Fragments of two 18th-century statements of Christian doctrine in the Zoque language, one dated 1736, bound with brief notes and 19th-century texts of Christian doctrine in the Zoque language. Includes the Lord's prayer, Ave Maria, ten commandments, and Apostles' Creed, sometimes multiple versions. Also includes two pages bound in of a corrected copy made by José Maria Sanchez of portions of Gerónimo de Ripalda's Mexican catechism in Zoque.

Contents:

1. ff. 2r-52v: Doctrina christiana en lengua zoque, año de 1736

2. ff. 55r-58v: Linguistic notes by Berendt specific to the texts in this volume.

3. ff. 59r-60v: Doctrina cristiana segun el P. Ripalda en idioma zoque (two fold-out pages bound in).

4. ff. 62r-69r: Fragmento de la doctrina cristiana en lengua zoque.

5. f. 71r: Interlinear Lord's prayer in Zoque and Spanish, written by Berendt and pasted in.

6. ff. 74r-76v: Fragmento de la doctrina cristiana en lengua zoque escrito por un indio del pueblo de San Fernando.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title based on title pages added at time of binding (ff. 2r, 62r, 74r).

Foliation: Paper, 76; foliation added later in red ink to first work, upper right recto, 2-15, [i], 17-33, 39-51; modern foliation in pencil throughout, lower right recto (modern foliation used for reference in this record).

Binding: Late 19th-century half leather.

Origin: Compiled in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, 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. 112).

Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 652 (no. 74).

Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 140 (no. 1304).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 112

Contains:

Ripalda, Gerónimo de, 1536?-1618. Doctrina christiana.

Lord's prayer. Zoque.

Ave Maria. Zoque.

Apostles' Creed. Zoque.

Ten commandments. Zoque.

Doctrina cristiana segun el P. Ripalda en idioma zoque.

OCLC:

155930878