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Title

Authors

• Henderson, George, fl. 1809

Other related names

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

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9946524423503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/502141289
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4652442

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

between 1851 and 1878

Summary

C. Hermann Berendt's transcription of 59 vocabulary entries in English and Miskito (Mosquito) from the second edition of George Henderson's Account of the British Settlement of Honduras (1811). Berendt's title page, as well as his notation on the cover (Mosquitos, G. Henderson, 1809), also make reference to the first edition. Berendt's version differs slightly from that in Henderson's book: the order of the languages in the columns is reversed (in Henderson's book Miskito is on the left and English on the right); the entry for the Miskito word cortee, which Henderson gives as meaning either God or moon, is listed as two separate entries; and Henderson's entry for the Miskito word soura, with English equivalent bad, is omitted. Berendt's draft version of the same list (1 leaf) is stored in the same folder as the manuscript. In the draft, he includes annotations in red ink in relation to 10 of the entries, with a note indicating that these are the Miskito words as given in Alexander Henderson's book Grammar of the Moskito language (New York, 1846). Berendt's copy of the latter is in the Rare Book Collection, Rare Books & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania. For a letter from Alexander Henderson to Berendt (30 May 1871), in which Henderson makes reference to that work, see Ms. Coll. 700 Item 127.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (p. i).
   
• This was the first of 19 manuscripts formerly bound together, probably by Daniel Garrison Brinton, and now disbound (Items 129-136, 143, 145, 146, 151-155, and 157-159). The bound volume had the spine title: Languages of Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
   

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Script

Provenance

• From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on upper cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Miskito language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
• Indians of Central America--Honduras--Languages
• Indians of Central America--Nicaragua--Languages

Genres

• Glossaries

Licenses

• Text

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