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Title

Baile del Güegüence ó Macho-Raton

Other related names

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

Call number

Ms. Coll. 700 Item 148
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9940057093503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155865105
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4005709

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Nahuatl-Spanish dialect, with title page, personas, and a few notes in Spanish

Origin

Date

1874

Place

Masaya

Summary

C. Hermann Berendt's 19th-century copy of the text of a musical drama in a Nahuatl-Spanish dialect named after one of its characters, with the satirical meaning, "the honored elder." The drama dates from the late 18th century or earlier. Other characters include a governor, a royal scribe, and local officials. Daniel Garrison Brinton's annotations in red ink (linguistic corrections to Berendt's text) and pencil (page number correspondences to publication) are later additions.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (p. i).
   

Watermark

PIRIE's Old Style.

Extent

36 leaves : 267 x 208 (181 x 129) mm. bound to 273 x 218 mm

Foliation

Paper, 36; [xviii, 1-3], 4-53; pagination by the writer in ink, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Late 19th-century half leather with marbled boards.

Layout

Written in 27-28 lines per page.

Script

In the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.

Provenance

• Compiled from two manuscripts of the drama (Brinton, Güegüence, p. xli).
   
• From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton.
   

Subjects topical

• Nahuatl-Spanish dialect--Texts
• Mangue language--Texts
• Indians of Central America--Nicaragua--Drama
• Indians of Central America--Nicaragua--Languages--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Plays
• Satires
• Manuscripts, Nahuatl--19th century
• Manuscripts, Spanish--19th century

Licenses

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