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

Title

Arte de la lengua vulgar mexicana de Guatemala

Other related names

• Brasseur de Bourbourg, abbé, 1814-1874, former owner
• Pinart, A. L. 1852-1911, former owner
• Brinton, Daniel Garrison, 1837-1899, former owner

Call number

Ms. Coll. 700 Item 186
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9939405373503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79451957
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3940537

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Spanish and Pipil

Origin

Date

17--?

Place

Escuintla, Guatemala?

Summary

A grammar for the Pipil language, predominantly in Spanish with Pipil examples.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from 19th-century title page (f. 1r).
   
• Condition: First three leaves and last leaf faded, damaged, and repaired; spine separating from front cover; some tears in gutter (ff. 189-191).
   

Extent

31 leaves : 201 x 130 mm. bound to 212 x 146 mm

Foliation

Paper, 31; iii (added title page and two leaves without foliation), 184-211; foliation is later than the text, added after the text had already suffered some damage; numbers in black ink, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

19th-century quarter leather.

Provenance

• Bookplates inside upper cover: Ex Collectione Americana, Domini Brasseur de Bourbourg; Alph. Pinart, Sol Oriens Discutit Umbras, Série E.3, No. 114.
   
• From the collection of Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page).
   

Subjects topical

• Pipil language--Grammar
• Indians of Central America--Guatemala--Languages--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Grammars
• Manuscripts, Nahuatl--18th century
• Manuscripts, Spanish--18th century
• Manuscripts, Latin American

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