Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Mexican Indian languages

Authors

• Fuertes, E. A. 1838-1903

Other related names

• Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878, recipient
• Berendt, C. Hermann 1817-1878, former owner
• Brinton, Daniel Garrison, 1837-1899, former owner

Call number

Ms. Coll. 700 Item 107
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9940733833503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84697986
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4073383

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

English, Spanish, Zapotec, Zoque, and Mixe

Origin

Date

1872-1873

Place

New York

Summary

C. Hermann Berendt's copy of vocabularies in Zapotec, Zoque, and Mixe (pp. 6-27) and ethnographic notes (pp. 29-53) gathered by E. A. Fuertes for the Smithsonian Institution during a U. S. Navy expedition to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Includes Berendt's corrections of and annotations to Fuertes's work and a lithograph of Dr. C. H. Berendt's analytical alphabet for Mexican and Central American languages (American Ethnological Society, 1868) pasted inside the lower cover. Loose notes (9 items, 10 leaves), originally pasted inside the covers and now shelved with the manuscript, include drafts of material in the manuscript and a letter to Joseph Henry, secretary of the Smithsonian, criticizing the contents.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (p. 3).
   

Extent

40 leaves : 165 x 103 mm. bound to 170 x 115 mm. +

Foliation

Paper, 80; [1-5], 6-53 (54-80 blank); page numbers in ink, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Late 19th-century boards.

Layout

Vocabularies written in 19 lines in 5 columns (English, Spanish, Zapotec, Zoque, and Mixe) across each double page opening; notes written in 19-20 long lines on rectos, with Berendt's annotations on versos and in margins, often in red ink.

Script

In the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.

Provenance

• Copied from the manuscript submitted by E. A. Fuertes to the Smithsonian.
   
• From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page).
   

Subjects topical

• Zapotec language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
• Zoque language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
• Mixe language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
• Zapotec Indians
• Zoque Indians
• Mixe Indians
• Indians of Mexico--Languages

Genres

• Codices
• Hybrid books
• Glossaries
• Field notes
• Manuscripts, American--19th century

Licenses

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