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Title

Lista alfabética de los pueblos de Guatemala, Tabasco, Chiapas, Salvador y Honduras

Authors

• Berendt, C. Hermann 1817-1878

Other related names

• Brinton, Daniel Garrison, 1837-1899, former owner

Call number

Ms. Coll. 700 Item 191
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9940972653503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/123490370
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4097265

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Spanish

Origin

Date

between 1868 and 1878

Place

New York;
Mexico?;
Guatemala?

Summary

A work in two sections: first an alphabetical list of pueblos for each of the geographical regions listed in the title, with their languages noted (ff. [iv] verso-36r); then the beginning of an incomplete second section, which consists of a list of the pueblos of San Salvador [i.e., El Salvador] arranged by department and district, with population numbers (36v-42r). In addition, the leaf count includes two loose items follow the title page: a rough draft of the title page and a printed title page for E. George Squier's List of books, pamphlets ... (1876).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. [i] recto); different title on paper label on cover.
   

Extent

50 leaves : 316 x 196 mm. bound to 322 x 202 mm

Foliation

Paper, 48; [vi], 44; page numbers in ink, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Late 19th-century quarter leather, in very poor condition; leather of spine has disintegrated, with covers and the first two gatherings detached; the essentially disbound manuscript is shelved flat.

Layout

In the first section, written in 29 lines on recto, with pueblo and department names in black ink and language notes in red or blue ink or pencil, and additional notes in a smaller hand on the facing verso; in the second section, written in 46-47 lines on recto, with additional notes in a smaller hand on the facing verso.

Script

Written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.

Provenance

• From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, probably later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton.
   

Subjects topical

• Mayan languages
• Indians of Central America--Guatemala--Languages
• Indians of Mexico--Languages
• Indians of Central America--El Salvador--Languages
• Indians of Central America--Honduras--Languages

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts, Spanish--19th century

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