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Doctrina [christ]iana en le[n]gua çapoteca / co[m]puesta por el muy R. P. Fray Pedro d'Feria.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 700 Item 102
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Pedro, de Feria, approximately 1524-1588.
- Language:
- Spanish
- Zapotec
- Subjects (All):
- Catholic Church--Doctrines--Early works to 1800.
- Catholic Church--Catechisms--Zapotec.
- Catholic Church.
- Zapotec language--Texts.
- Indians of Mexico--Languages--Early works to 1800.
- Language and languages.
- Indians of Mexico--Languages.
- Zapotec language.
- Mexico--Languages--Early works to 1800.
- Mexico.
- Genre:
- Codices.
- catechisms
- prayers (compositions)
- Manuscripts, Mexican.
- Manuscripts, Spanish.
- Texts.
- Catechisms.
- Penn Provenance:
- Copied from the printed copy of Doctrina christiana en lengua castellana y çapoteca (Mexico: Pedro Ocharte, 1567) in the John Carter Brown Library.
- From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page).
- Physical Description:
- 21 leaves : paper ; 242 x 194 (188 x 144) mm bound to 247 x 205 mm
- Contained In:
- Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection. Item 102
- Other Title:
- Doctrina christiana en lengua zapoteca
- Doctrina xpiana.
- Place of Publication:
- Providence, R.I., 1871.
- Language Note:
- Zapotec, with Spanish title page and preface.
- Biography/History:
- Dominican provincial and bishop of Chiapas and Oaxaca.
- Summary:
- An 1871 copy of a 1567 collection of Catholic doctrine in the Zapotec language. Contents include texts of prayers (Lord's prayer, Ave Maria); the Apostles' Creed; lists of the ten commandments, sacraments, articles of faith, sins, and virtues; and a brief catechism.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (p. [I]); Brinton and Weeks record the title as it appears with abbreviation, Doctrina xpiana.
- Pagination: Paper, 21; [i, I-III], IV, [viii], V-VII, [VIII], 1-24; pagination, when present, in ink, upper center; four additional leaves of notes sewn in after p. IV.
- Layout: Written in 20 long lines.
- Script: Written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.
- Binding: Late 19th-century half leather.
- Origin: Written in Providence, R.I., 1871.
- Cited in:
- Described in Brinton, Daniel Garrison. Catalogue of the Berendt Linguistic Collection (Department of Archaeology and Paleontology, University of Pennsylvania, 1900), p. 22 (no. 102).
- Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 654 (no. 81).
- Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), pp. 155-156 (no. 1476).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 102
- Contains:
- Lord's prayer. Zapotec.
- Ave Maria. Zapotec.
- Apostles' Creed. Zapotec.
- Ten commandments. Zapotec.
- OCLC:
- 155932797
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