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Title

Vocabulary lists in English and a Mayan language

Other related names

• Brinton, Daniel G. 1837-1899, former owner

Call number

Ms. Coll. 700 Item 232
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9954387403503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/778786626

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

English, with vocabulary in English and a Mayan language

Origin

Date

ca. 1900

Place

Haddonfield?

Summary

Notebook of lined paper containing various lists of vocabulary in English and a Mayan language, written by an unidentified researcher who, in his notes, refers at points to the work of Daniel Garrison Brinton (p. 123, 161). Laid in is a brief list of references on letterhead of Thomas J. Collins, Haddonfield, NJ, with the latest dated work being Brinton's Primer of Mayan hieroglyphics, 1895. Separate word lists are scattered throughout the notebook, sometimes grouped under headings, including: verbs; counting money (fractions); parts of the body; relatives; colors; corn; diseases; personal pronouns; possessives; rivers and streams; animals; plants; and dress. A few geographical references found in the book all refer to Guatemala: Chama, Coban (p. 25); River Chixoy (p. 48). At the front are pencilled notes on pronunciation, concerning the sounds transcribed as j, h, x, and s (flyleaf, verso). At the back of the book are notes on genealogy related to the Collins and Clark families (p. 197-200), with particular reference to Elizabeth Clark (1809-1865) and John Collins (1806-1900), who were married in 1831, and including information cited from the Daily Union History of Atlantic City and County, New Jersey (1900). The latest date in the genealogy is 1900, the year of John Collins's death. Included in the same box with the manuscript is a second notebook of lined paper, with reddish paper covers, containing further vocabulary material written in the same hand. The second notebook has a homemade system of alphabetical, hand-cut and handwritten tabs, one for each letter of the alphabet with the exception of d, f, p, v, w, x and z; about 22 vocabulary entries have been written into it, distributed though the book under the appropriate tabs (only seven tabs have entries, those for: a, i, k, m, t, u, and y). All of the entries in the tabbed notebook are verbs that are found in the first notebook, at the beginning of the first vocabulary group (p.1-2).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger based on the content.
   

Extent

98 leaves : 227 x 150 mm. bound to 232 x 152 mm.+

Foliation

Paper, 98; 1-106, 111- 200 page numbers printed or stamped in ink, upper outer corners. Two leaves are cut out between p. 106 and 111.

Support

Paper

Binding

Late 19th-century or early 20th-century leather notebook, with the word Record embossed on the cover.

Script

Written in an unidentified hand.

Provenance

• Accessioned, 1942.
   
• Daniel Garrison Brinton Library (University of Pennsylvania Library bookplate, inside upper cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Mayan languages--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
• Indians of Central America--Guatemala--Languages
• Indians of Mexico--Languages
• Collins family
• Clark family
• Guatemala--Languages
• Mexico--Languages

Genres

• Glossaries
• Notebooks
• Genealogies
• Codices
• Manuscripts, American--20th century

Licenses

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