Vorläufige Liste der Völker, Stämme, Sprachen und Dialecte von Mexico und Central America

Contributor:

Brinton, Daniel G. 1837-1899 (former owner)

Name:

Berendt, C. Hermann 1817-1878

Date:

1855

Description:

Alphabetical list of tribes with information about their locations and languages, compiled as a preliminary version of an appendix for another work. Index tabs for letters run along the right-hand edge of the manuscript.

Language:

English

Provenance:

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

Subject:

Indians of Mexico -- Languages; Indians of Central America -- Languages

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices; Manuscripts, English; Manuscripts, German

Physical Description:

28 leaves : paper; 330 x 198 mm bound to 338 x 206 mm

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from title page (f. 2r).; Pagination: Paper, 28; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.; Script: In the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.; Binding: Late 19th-century quarter leather; upper cover is detached, lower cover partly detached.; Entries primarily in English, with title page in German.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 700

Collection:

Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection