Ueber das Verbum in den americanischen Sprachen / by Wilhelm von Humboldt.

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Humboldt, Wilhelm von, 1767-1835.

Contributor:

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

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Comparative linguistics.

Indigenous peoples--Languages.

Indigenous peoples.

Indians--Languages.

Indians of Mexico--Languages.

Indians of Mexico.

Indians of Central America--Languages.

Indians of Central America.

Indians of South America--Languages.

Indians of South America.

Genre:

treatises

Manuscripts, German.

Penn Provenance:

From the collection of Daniel Garrison Brinton.

Physical Description:

30 leaves : paper ; 333 x 206 (279 x 100) mm

Contained In:

Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection. Item 208

Place of Publication:

Berlin, 1884.

Language Note:

German.

Biography/History:

German philosopher and scholar of languages.

Summary:

A work on words in indigenous languages from Mexico, Central America, and South America, including Nahuatl, Mixtec, Huastec, and Totonac. The manuscript is lightly edited, with some phrases crossed out, and an index at the end gives references to topics for the major languages considered.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from title page (f. 1r).

This was the fourth of ten manuscripts and facsimiles formerly bound together, now disbound (Item 205-Item 214).

Foliation: Paper, 30; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Layout: Written in 38 lines, usually only in the right half of each page, with occasional notes in the left half.

Origin: Copied from the original in the Royal Library at Berlin, March 1884, for Dr. D. G. Brinton (note on title page).

Cited in:

Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 204 (no. 2133).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 208

OCLC:

182723117