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Title

Arte de la lengua chiapaneca

Authors

• Albornoz, Juan de

Other related names

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

Call number

Ms. Coll. 700 Item 116
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9938772533503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79478969
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3877253

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Spanish with Chiapanec examples

Origin

Date

1870

Place

Mérida de Yucatan

Summary

A late 19th-century copy of Albornoz's late 17th-century grammar of the Chiapanec language, including chapters on orthography, the parts of speech, conjugation, and syntax. Two folded leaves glued to the first blank page following p. 40 contain Berendt's draft copy of the last four chapters.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 3r).
   
• Albornoz's closing paragraph seems to give the date 1691 for the original manuscript (p. 40).
   

Extent

34 leaves : 232 x 177 (186 x 133) mm. bound to 234 x 192 mm

Foliation

Paper, vi, [I-V], VI, [1], 2-40, xii; 2 leaves glued in following p. 40; contemporary page numbers in ink, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Late 19th-century half leather.

Layout

Written in 30 long lines, with the main text on lined paper.

Script

In the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.

Provenance

• Copied from a manuscript in the possession of the abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg.
   
• From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page).
   

Subjects topical

• Chiapanec language--Grammar
• Indians of Mexico--Languages--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Grammars
• Manuscripts, Spanish--19th century

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