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Title

Miscellanea centro-americana.

Authors

• Berendt, C. Hermann 1817-1878
• Williamson, George
• Flint, Earl

Other related names

• Brinton, Daniel G. 1837-1899, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78096900)

Call number

Ms. Coll. 700 Item 180
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9961539833503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/740054600

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Spanish, English, and German, with one set of vocabularies (f. 37r) including Cueva and Mangue (Chorotega) words

Origin

Date

1862-1876?

Summary

Scrapbook, assembled by Daniel Garrison Brinton, of notes, manuscripts, clippings, line drawings and hand-drawn maps of C. Hermann Berendt, on a variety of topics pertaining to Central America. Also included is an unfinished draft letter from Berendt to an unidentified addressee, reporting on his ethnological and linguistic research on the Indians of Nicaragua (1874?; f. 21r); and a letter from George Williamson, then Minister Resident of the United States in Guatemala, to Berendt, dated 15 November 1874 (f. 24r). The volume has a table of contents listing 18 headings (f. i recto). The following handwritten materials of Berendt are included: Bibliography to Central America (f. 1r); a description of the land, industry, fauna and flora, and population of Verapaz department, Guatemala (Descripcion de Vera Paz; f. 4); notes on a conversation, entitled Isthmus Tehuantepec (second folio numbered 15); texts on Indian dance and drama, or festival (f. 36r), including the Mangue or Chorotega Indians of Nicaragua (Representaciones escenicas; Festspiele im Chorotega Gebiet; Bailes de Masaya), the Kekchi Indians of Cobán, and the Quiché Indians (Sakikoxol ò baile de Cortes), of Guatemala. Other sets of notes are headed: Archäologische Funde in Yucatan (f. 17r); Antiquities of Nicaragua: an Indian flute (f. 21v-22r); List of Nicaraguan antiquities (f. 23r); and Native words from Oviedo, with vocabularies labeled as Nicaragua (compared with Nahuatl), Cueva and Chorotega languages (f. 37r). Numerous maps, plans,and drawings pertain to various ruins in Mexico and Guatemala (see Note on decoration); objects depicted in drawings are sometimes noted to be from the collection of Berendt himself (f. 25r), or of Earl Flint (f. 25v, 26r), or Schiffmann (f. 26v, 27r). The following Spanish-language clippings are also included: an anecdote involving the Tzotzil Indians of Chamula, in Chiapas, Mexico, dated 1869 (f. 16r); a description of the locale and ruins of Palenque, Chiapas, dated 1872 (f. 34v-35r); and pages from La Sociedad económica, Guatemala, 1873 (f. 38r), with an article about the Guatemala National Museum and its ethnographic department, as well as a series of articles on the Lacandon Indians (El pais de los lacandones), and the Popol vuh (El libro sagrado), holy book of the Quiche Indians, as well as a serialized version of Pedro de Alvarado's account of the conquest of Guatemala (Informacion hecha por orden de Hernan Cortés).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from cover.
   
• Item 180 is the second of three large scrapbooks (Items 179-181) compiled by Daniel Garrison Brinton from miscellaneous loose notes and materials of C. Hermann Berendt (Brinton, p. 32); the other two scrapbooks are entitled: Miscellanea maya (Item 179), and Miscelleanea historica et linguistica (Item 181).
   
• Condition: Scrapbook folios brown around margins; some inserted material especially fragile (leaves with tears, f. 5v-6r; tracing paper, f. 16v).
   

Extent

41 leaves : 391-394 x 255-258 mm bound to 402 x 286 mm

Foliation

Paper, 41; ii + 41, with a total of approximately 130 leaves tipped onto the scrapbook folios, and many blank scrapbook folios at back; [i, ii], 1-15, 15-38; contemporary foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Numerous partial leaves are tipped in; and a total of 16 leaves are laid in (preceding f. 13, 23, 36). Five folios (f. ii, 18, 20, 28, 36) are blank on both recto and verso.

Support

Paper

Binding

19th-century half leather (Label: Shipman's Patent Invoice & Scrap Book, patented June 13, 1871).

Script

Notes, maps and drawings in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt; a letter in the hand of George Williamson (f. 24r); and drawings in the hand of Earl Flint (f. 32v).

Provenance

• From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page of a related scrapbook, Ms. Coll. 700, Item 179).
   

Subjects topical

• Indians of Central America--Antiquities
• Indians of Central America--Antiquities
• Indians of Mexico--Antiquities
• Indians of Mexico--Antiquities
• Indians of Central America--Guatemala--Antiquities
• Indians of Central America
• Mangue language
• Cueva language
• Language and languages
• Antiquities
• Mangue language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
• Indians of Central America--Nicaragua--Antiquities
• Indians of Central America--Nicaragua--Languages
• Cueva language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
• Mayas
• Maya art
• Maya art
• Maya sculpture
• Maya sculpture
• Chorotega Indians
• Chorotega Indians
• Kekchi Indians
• Kekchi Indians
• Lacandon Indians
• Lacandon Indians
• Mangue Indians
• Mangue Indians
• Quiché Indians
• Quiché Indians
• Tzotzil Indians
• Tzotzil Indians
• Mayas
• Guatemala
• Mexico--Antiquities
• Mexico
• Guatemala--Antiquities
• Nicaragua--Antiquities
• Nicaragua
• Verapaz (Guatemala)

Genres

• Drawings (visual works)
• Glossaries
• Clippings (information artifacts)
• Scrapbooks
• Tracings (drawings)
• Maps (documents)
• Plans (maps)
• Controlled vocabularies
• Manuscripts, German
• Manuscripts, English
• Manuscripts, Latin American
• Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
• Controlled vocabularies
• Manuscripts, Spanish

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