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Ms. Coll. 700 Item 131 Vocabulario de la lengua de los moskitos

Title

Vocabulario de la lengua de los moskitos

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Ms. Coll. 700 Item 131
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

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Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Spanish and Miskito, with a few notes in German

Origin

Written sometime between the beginning of C. Hermann Berendt's research in the Americas in 1851 and his death in 1878.
Date
between 1851 and 1878

Summary

C. Hermann Berendt's transcription of approximately 415 vocabulary entries, including numbers, from the book published in 1845 by A. M. Fellechner, Dr. Müller, and C. L. C. Hesse, entitled Bericht über die im höchsten Auftrage Seiner Königl. Hoheit des Prinzen Carl von Preussen und Sr. Durchlaucht des Herrn Fürsten von Schoenburg-Waldenburg bewirkte Untersuchung einiger Teile des Mosquitolandes, erstattet von der dazu ernannten Commission. Whereas in the published book the authors give the Miskito word followed by the German equivalent, Berendt's list presents only Spanish equivalents and not the German, except for a few instances in which he notes the German equivalent in pencil. In addition to the vocabulary list found on pages 269-274, his transcription includes the following material from the same work: 1) a list covering numbers from 1 to 1000 (p. 20-21; Fellechner, p. 250-252); 2) a list of supplemental vocabulary entries (p. 22-24) that Berendt extracted from the pages describing the grammar of the language (Fellechner, p. 241-268); and 3) a song, or poem, in Miskito (p. 25) which the authors of the book attribute to Ben, son of Pablo, of Cape Gracias a Dios, Honduras (Fellechner, p. 268). In the book, the poem is given with a German translation, which Berendt omits, giving his own Spanish translation instead. Two notes in red ink (p. 6, 8) are apparently cross-references to Alexander Henderson's Grammar of the Mosquito language; Berendt's copy of that work is in the Rare Book Collection, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania. One footnote added by Berendt (p. 8), concerning the Miskito for iguana, refers to Thomas Young's book Narrative of a residence on the Mosquito shore; for Berendt's transcription of Miskito vocabulary from that work, see Ms. Coll. 700, Item 130.

Notes

Extent

13 leaves 204 x 126 (155 x 85-90) mm. bound to 204 x 126 mm

Foliation

Paper, ii + 13 + iii; [1-3], 4-25, [26 (blank)]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary paper covers; sewn. Gatherings are detached or nearly detached from each other.

Layout

  • Written in 2 columns of 20 lines with Spanish on the left and Miskito on the right, except for one poem written in long lines (p. 25).
  • Script

  • Written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.
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