Lengua chinanteca

Name:

Berendt, C. Hermann (Carl Hermann), 1817-1878

Date:

1871

Description:

Vocabulary list of approximately 160 entries in Chinantec and Spanish, compiled by C. Hermann Berendt, evidently drawn from Nicolás de la Barreda's work entitled Doctrina christiana en lengua chinanteca, published in 1730. (For Berendt's copy of that work, see Ms. Coll. 700, Item 97.) Some entries consist only of a cross-reference to a different entry; a Spanish equivalent is wanting for some of the main entries. Included in some cases is a reference to what is apparently the page number in Barreda's work where the word is found; such references are confined to pages 1 to 3 of Barreda's work. The leaves of the manuscript had originally been folded in half to form a gathering; currently, they are laid flat, corresponding to how they are intended to be viewed, and are stored in a map drawer.

Language:

Spanish; Castilian

Provenance:

From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page).; Brinton, Daniel G. 1837-1899, former owner.

Subject:

Chinantec language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc; Indians of Mexico -- Languages; Chinantec language; Language and languages

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Glossaries; Manuscripts, Spanish; Controlled vocabularies; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

4 leaves : paper; 422 x 352 (422 x 352) mm

Geographic Subject:

Mexico -- Languages; Mexico

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. gathering.; Title from title page (f. 4v).; Foliation: Paper, i + 4; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. The manuscript is written on 4 loose, oversize leaves that had originally been folded in half to form a gathering, and placed inside a 5th, blank leaf, similarly folded (forming endleaves), and a contemporary paper folder. The title page is written on the verso of f. 4, on the part that formed the front page of the gathering when the manuscript was thus folded.; Layout: Written on lined paper in 6 columns of equal width, ruled in red ink, except for the rule at mid page, which is marked by a fold line (the leaves were originally folded lengthwise in half). The Chinantec word is followed by the Spanish equivalent; the entries are roughly alphabetized, grouped under headings for the letter of the alphabet with which the Chinantec word begins (the entries within each column are not further alphabetized). The headings are as follows: A, B, C, Ch, D, E (f. 1r); F, G, H, I, J, L (f. 2r); M, N, N, O, P, Q (f. 3r); R, S, T, U, X, Y (f. 4). In the lower portions of the columns for the letters U and Y, separate headings are given for the letters V and Z, respectively.; Script: Written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.; Origin: Probably written in New York, around the same time that C. Hermann Berendt produced his manuscript copy of Nicolás de la Barreda's work entitled Doctrina christiana en lengua chinanteca, in November 1871.; Spanish and Chinantec.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 700 Item 239

Collection:

Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection