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Diccionario huasteco-español : estractado de la Noticia de la lengua huasteca con catecismo y doctrina christiana y con un copioso diccionario por Carlos de Tapia Zenteno / por C. H. Berendt, M. D.
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Tapia Zenteno, Carlos de.
- Language:
- Mayan languages
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Catholic Church--Doctrines.
- Catholic Church.
- Huastec language--Dictionaries--Spanish.
- Huastec language.
- Huastec language--Texts.
- Mayan languages--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc--Early works to 1800.
- Mayan languages.
- Mayan languages--Grammar--Early works to 1800.
- Mayan languages--Texts--Early works to 1800.
- Indians of Mexico--Languages--Early works to 1800.
- Indians of Mexico.
- Language and languages.
- Indians of Mexico--Languages.
- Mayan languages--Grammar.
- Mexico--Languages--Early works to 1800.
- Mexico.
- Genre:
- Codices.
- dictionaries
- glossaries
- prayers (compositions)
- translations (documents)
- Manuscripts, Spanish.
- Texts.
- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
- Dictionaries.
- 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:
- 146 leaves : paper ; 191 x 121 mm bound to 196 x 134 mm
- Production:
- New York, 1867.
- Contained In:
- Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection. Item 82
- Language Note:
- Huastec and Spanish, with some words in Maya and Cakchikel.
- Summary:
- Dictionary of about 3,000 words of the Huastec language, copied by C. Hermann Berendt from Carlos de Tapia Zenteno's work on the Huastec language, published in Mexico in 1767. Berendt made a number of additions, including words from Maya in blue ink and Cakchikel in red ink for comparison. The dictionary is followed by grammatical notes and a partial copy of the Cathecismo y doctrina christiana en lengua huasteca from Tapia Zenteno's work.
- Contents:
- 1.p.1-211: Diccionario huasteco-español.
- 2.p.213-223: Noticias gramaticales.
- 3.p.225-283: Cathecismo y doctrina christiana en lengua huasteca.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (f. 1r).
- Pagination: Paper, 146; ii + 288 + ii; contemporary pagination stamped in blue ink, upper outer corners.
- Layout: The catechism and doctrine is written in parallel in Huastec and Spanish, with Huastec on the left page and Spanish on the right page of each opening.
- Script: In the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.
- Binding: 1860s leather with minimal gilt tooling; paper label inside upper cover from B. Westermann & Co., 440 Broadway, New York.
- Origin: Copied in New York, 1867.
- Cited in:
- Described in Brinton, Daniel Garrison. Catalogue of the Berendt Linguistic Collection (Department of Archaeology and Paleontology, University of Pennsylvania, 1900), p. 18-19 (no. 82).
- Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 678-679 (no. 163).
- Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 355-356 (no. 4078).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 82
- Contains:
- Lord's prayer. Huastec.
- Ave Maria. Huastec.
- Apostles' Creed. Huastec.
- Ten commandments. Huastec.
- OCLC:
- 166927762
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