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Title

Authors

• Valentini, Philipp J. J. 1828-1899

Other related names

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

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9947449203503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/550539592
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4744920

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

between 1860 and 1878

Summary

Handwritten manuscript by C. Hermann Berendt on lined paper, containing approximately 250 vocabulary entries in Spanish and Bribri. According to a note on the title page, the vocabulary was collected by Philipp J. J. Valentini in the province of Limón, Costa Rica, among the Blancos Indians. The manuscript has the appearance of an informal draft. Some Spanish words lack a Bribri equivalent. There is occasional use of headings, such as for different categories of animals. The manuscript leaves were originally folded and tipped in on a flyleaf inside of contemporary paper covers, which accompany the manuscript. On the cover Berendt dates the vocabulary to the decade of the 1860s, presumably with reference to Valentini's collecting of it.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 1r). Between the lines of the title written in ink, an alternate title is written in pencil: Diccionario de palabras de los indios blancos.
   
• This was the seventeenth 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.
   
• The bound volume in which the manuscript was originally contained is described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 68-70 (no. 388); however, the details given for the seventeenth manuscript in the volume mistakenly refer to a different item by Philipp J. J. Valentini (Ms. Coll. 700, Item 156).
   

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Script

Provenance

• From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on the verso of front free endpaper in the bound volume that once contained the present item).
   

Subjects topical

• Bribri dialect--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
• Indians of Central America--Costa Rica--Languages

Genres

• Glossaries
• Manuscripts, Spanish--19th century
• Manuscripts, Latin American

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