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Title

Arte de la lengua matlalcinga :

Authors

• Basalenque, Diego, 1577-1651
• Basalenque, Diego, 1577-1651
• León, Nicolás, 1859-1929
• Museo Michoacano

Other related names

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

Call number

Ms. Coll. 700 Item 233
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9954481563503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/780159373

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Spanish and Matlatzinca

Origin

Date

1890?

Place

Morelia

Summary

Late 19th-century copy, in the hand of Nicolás León, of the abridged, or abbreviated version of the grammar of the Matlatzinca (Matlalcinga), or Pirinda language, written by the Augustinian friar Diego Basalenque in 1640, contained in a larger work known under the title: Arte de la lengua matlaltzinga mui copioso y assi mismo una suma y arte abrebiado. León, who at the time was the director of the Museo Michaoacano, in Morelia, Mexico, sent the copy to Daniel Garrison Brinton, in Philadelphia, under cover of a letter dated 31 May 1890. In the letter (included here), written in Spanish, on letterhead of the museum, León seems to refer to the transcription as being in need of more correction, evidently alluding to the corrections made in his own hand in a darker ink; and he refers to the possibility that Brinton might have it translated. Also included is a newspaper clipping of León's article about the same language, entitled Origen, estado actual y geografia del idioma pirinda ó matlaltzinca en el estado de Michoacán, presumably from the Gaceta oficial del gobierno del estado de Michoacan de Ocampo, where it was originally published, in 1886.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. i); subtitle from caption title (f. 1r).
   

Extent

23 leaves : 210 x 136 mm

Foliation

Paper, 23. The manuscript consists of 11 loose bifolia, numbered 1 to 11, preceded by a title page written on a piece of cardboard. Contemporary numeration found on the front of each bifolium in ink, upper left recto, and also in pencil, lower mid or right recto.

Support

Paper

Script

Written in the hand of Nicolás León.

Provenance

• Copy made by Nicolás León of one section of the 1640 manuscript of Diego Basalenque entitled Arte de la lengua matlaltzinga mui copioso y assi mismo una suma y arte abrebiado. The original manuscript was at that time in the possession of León at the Museo Michoacano; today it is held at the John Carter Brown Library.
   
• From the collection of Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on verso of title page).
   

Subjects topical

• Matlatzinca language--Grammar
• Indians of Mexico--Languages--Early works to 1800
• Language and languages
• Indians of Mexico--Languages
• Grammar
• Matlatzinca language
• Mexico--Languages--Early works to 1800
• Mexico

Genres

• Grammars (instructional materials)
• Manuscripts, Spanish
• Clippings (information artifacts)

Licenses

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