Lengua chinanteca.

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Berendt, C. Hermann (Carl Hermann), 1817-1878.

Contributor:

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

Language:

Central American Indian (Other)

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Chinantec language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Chinantec language.

Indians of Mexico--Languages.

Indians of Mexico.

Mexico--Languages.

Mexico.

Language and languages.

Genre:

glossaries

Manuscripts, Spanish.

Manuscripts, Latin American.

Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

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:

4 leaves : paper ; 422 x 352 (422 x 352) mm

Contained In:

Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection. Item 239

Place of Publication:

[New York?], [1871??]

Language Note:

Spanish and Chinantec.

Summary:

Vocabulary list of approximately 160 entries in Chinantec and Spanish, compiled by C. Hermann Berendt, evidently drawn from Nicolás de la Barreda's work entitled Doctrina christiana en lengua chinanteca, published in 1730. (For Berendt's copy of that work, see Ms. Coll. 700, Item 97.) Some entries consist only of a cross-reference to a different entry; a Spanish equivalent is wanting for some of the main entries. Included in some cases is a reference to what is apparently the page number in Barreda's work where the word is found; such references are confined to pages 1 to 3 of Barreda's work. The leaves of the manuscript had originally been folded in half to form a gathering; currently, they are laid flat, corresponding to how they are intended to be viewed, and are stored in a map drawer.

Notes:

Ms. gathering.

Title from title page (f. 4v).

Foliation: Paper, i + 4; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. The manuscript is written on 4 loose, oversize leaves that had originally been folded in half to form a gathering, and placed inside a 5th, blank leaf, similarly folded (forming endleaves), and a contemporary paper folder. The title page is written on the verso of f. 4, on the part that formed the front page of the gathering when the manuscript was thus folded.

Layout: Written on lined paper in 6 columns of equal width, ruled in red ink, except for the rule at mid page, which is marked by a fold line (the leaves were originally folded lengthwise in half). The Chinantec word is followed by the Spanish equivalent; the entries are roughly alphabetized, grouped under headings for the letter of the alphabet with which the Chinantec word begins (the entries within each column are not further alphabetized). The headings are as follows: A, B, C, Ch, D, E (f. 1r); F, G, H, I, J, L (f. 2r); M, N, N, O, P, Q (f. 3r); R, S, T, U, X, Y (f. 4). In the lower portions of the columns for the letters U and Y, separate headings are given for the letters V and Z, respectively.

Script: Written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.

Origin: Probably written in New York, around the same time that C. Hermann Berendt produced his manuscript copy of Nicolás de la Barreda's work entitled Doctrina christiana en lengua chinanteca, in November 1871.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 239

OCLC:

786301219