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Title

Doctrina christiana en lengua chapaneca

Other related names

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

Call number

Ms. Coll. 700 Item 117
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9938799633503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79463595
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3879963

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Chiapanec, with Spanish titles and a few Latin phrases

Origin

Date

1869

Place

Tuxtla Gutierrez

Summary

An 1869 copy of a portion of a collection of Catholic texts and prayers from the 17th or 18th century, translated into the Chiapanec language. Contents include a catechism, several acrostics and anagrams, prayers, a sermon, and a number of pen-and-ink illustrations, including a simple family tree for Jesus (p. 44), a complicated cross with a serpent at its base (p. 55); a woman praying amidst grasses or flames (p. 62); and a skeleton (p. 63).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 3r).
   

Extent

32 leaves : 213 x 174 (186 x 129) mm. bound to 222 x 185 mm

Foliation

Paper, 32; viii, 21-36, 39-67, xiii (blank); page numbers written by Berendt.

Support

Paper

Binding

Late 19th-century half leather.

Layout

Each page has a double frame in ink around the writing block; written 25 lines per page unless the text is in a special layout.

Script

In the hand of Carl Hermann Berendt.

Provenance

• Copied from an original in the possession of Don Angel Camas of Chiapas.
   
• From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page).
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Codices
• Catechisms
• Prayers
• Translations
• Manuscripts, Mexican--19th century
• Manuscripts, Spanish--19th century

Licenses

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