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

Title

Arte breve en lengua tzoque, conforme se hable en Tecpatlan

Authors

• González, Luis

Other related names

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

Call number

Ms. Coll. 700 Item 108
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9939422823503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79451967
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3942282

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Spanish and Zoque

Origin

Date

1870

Place

Mérida de Yucatan

Summary

A 19th-century copy of a 17th-century grammar of the Zoque language, preceded by prayers and a catechism in Zoque and followed by an index.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (p. [i]); attribution by the abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg in his Bibliothèque mexico-guatémalienne (p. 18).
   

Extent

31 leaves : 233 x 181 (186 x 134) mm. bound to 240 x 194 mm

Foliation

Paper, [vi], 57; pagination in upper outer corners, in Berendt's hand.

Support

Paper

Binding

19th-century half leather; front cover nearly detached.

Layout

Written in 30 lines per page on lined paper.

Script

In the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.

Provenance

• Copied from a manuscript dated 1652 in the possession of the abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg, sold to him by the Dominicans of San Cristobal in 1859 (p. [iii]).
   
• From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page).
   

Subjects topical

• Catholic Church--Doctrines
• Zoque language--Grammar
• Zoque language--Texts
• Indians of Mexico--Languages--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

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