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Doctrina christiana en lengua chinanteca, añadida la explicacion de los principales mysterios de la fee. : Modo de baptizar en caso de necessidad, y de ayudar á bien morir, y methodo de administracion de sacramentos / por el Br. D. Nicolas de la Barreda, cura beneficiado, y juez ecclesiastico del beneficio de S. Pedro de Yolos de el Obispado de Oaxaca.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 700 Item 97
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Barreda, Nicolás de la
- Language:
- Central American Indian (Other)
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Catholic Church--Doctrines--Early works to 1800.
- Catholic Church--Catechisms--Chinantec.
- Catholic Church.
- Chinantec language--Texts.
- Indians of Mexico--Languages--Early works to 1800.
- Sacraments--Catholic Church--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Language and languages.
- Sacraments--Catholic Church.
- Indians of Mexico--Languages.
- Chinantec language.
- Mexico--Languages--Early works to 1800.
- Mexico.
- Genre:
- Codices.
- catechisms
- prayers (compositions)
- translations (documents)
- Manuscripts, Mexican.
- Manuscripts, Spanish.
- Handbooks and manuals.
- Texts.
- Catechisms.
- Penn Provenance:
- "Manuscript copy of the first and only edition of Barreda's work, and of the only copy known of it, which was obtained in Mexico by Dr. Berendt, and sold by him to Mr. John Carter Brown of Providence" (Brinton, p. 21).
- From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page).
- Physical Description:
- 79 leaves : paper ; 207 x 174 (164 x 128) mm bound to 212 x 176 mm
- Contained In:
- Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection. Item 97
- Place of Publication:
- [New York], [1871]
- Language Note:
- Spanish and Chinantec.
- Summary:
- A fair 19th-century copy of Barreda's Chinantec translation, published in 1730, of Geronimo de Ripalda's Doctrina christiana, with additional material on Catholic doctrine and the administration of the sacraments. Includes the Lord's prayer, Ave Maria, Apostles' Creed, and ten commandments in Chinantec, followed by catechisms and instructions for the sacraments written in parallel columns of Chinantec and Spanish. The title page, licenses and prefatory material in Spanish from the published edition are copied at the beginning of the volume.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (f. 2r).
- Pagination: Paper, 79; [ii, I-III], IV-XII, [1], 2-119; pagination in same hand as text, upper center; ff. 67v-79v blank.
- Layout: Catechisms and material on sacraments written in 2 columns of 20 lines, Chinantec on the left and Spanish on the right (pp. 13-119).
- Script: In the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.
- Decoration: Elaborate pen-and-ink borders on title page.
- Binding: Late 19th-century blind tooled leather, now lacking spine.
- Origin: Copied in New York, 1871 (p. 119).
- Cited in:
- Described in Brinton, Daniel Garrison. Catalogue of the Berendt Linguistic Collection (Department of Archaeology and Paleontology, University of Pennsylvania, 1900), p. 21 (no. 97).
- Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 633 (no. 15).
- Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 60 (no. 298).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 97
- Contains:
- Ripalda, Gerónimo de, 1536?-1618. Doctrina christiana.
- Lord's prayer. Chinantec.
- Ave Maria. Chinantec.
- Apostles' Creed. Chinantec.
- Ten commandments. Chinantec.
- OCLC:
- 155930275
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