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Title

Authors

• Wafer, Lionel, 1660?-1705?

Other related names

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

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9949795693503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/713565540
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4979569

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

1873?

Place

New York?

Summary

C. Hermann Berendt's transcription of vocabulary recorded by Lionel Wafer on the Isthmus of Darien (Panama), in the Indian language spoken there (Cuna) and English, taken from the original 1699 edition of Wafer's book about his travels entitled A new voyage and description of the Isthmus of America. The vocabulary has 45 entries, including a few phrases, and 22 numbers ranging from 1 to 51. Berendt notes that the words and phrases come from p. 187-188, and the numbers from p. 181-183 of Wafer's book. Berendt includes two annotations in pencil, one suggesting that the word nee (moon) be compared to Tule dialect, and the other querying whether the meaning of the word mamaubah should be fire (not: fine). In addition, a note by Berendt in red ink (p. 3) cites an explanation from Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés (libro xxix, cap. 26-31; probably in: Historia general y natural de las Indias) about the derivation of the name Coyba or Cueva from an Indian word meaning: a distant place.

Notes

• Ms. component part.
   
• Title from component title page (p.1).
   
• Item 169, in contemporary paper covers, is the 6th of 15 manuscripts (Items 162-165, 167-171, 172-175, 218, and 219) bound together in a volume with the spine title: Languages of Chiriqui and Darien.
   

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Script

Provenance

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

Subjects topical

• Cuna language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
• Indians of Central America--Panama--Languages

Genres

• Glossaries
• Manuscripts, American--19th century

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