Baile del Güegüence ó Macho-Raton : comedia de los indios mangues / por C. Hermann Berendt, M.D.; Macho-Raton; Güegüence

Abstract:

C. Hermann Berendt's 19th-century copy of the text of a musical drama in a Nahuatl-Spanish dialect named after one of its characters, with the satirical meaning, "the honored elder." The drama dates from the late 18th century or earlier. Other characters include a governor, a royal scribe, and local officials. Daniel Garrison Brinton's annotations in red ink (linguistic corrections to Berendt's text) and pencil (page number correspondences to publication) are later additions.

Timespan:

Nicaragua.; Nicaragua

Date:

1850

Identifier:

9940057093503681; (OCoLC)ocn155930771; (OCoLC)155930771; (CStRLIN)PAUR06-B36; (PU)4005709-penndb-Voyager

Language:

Spanish; Castilian; Nahuatl languages

Provenance:

Compiled from two manuscripts of the drama (Brinton, Güegüence, p. xli).; From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton.

Publisher:

Masaya, 1874.

Subject:

Mangue language -- Texts.; Nahuatl-Spanish dialect -- Texts.; Indians of Central America -- Nicaragua -- Drama.; Indians of Central America.; Language and languages.; Indians of Central America -- Nicaragua -- Languages -- Early works to 1800.; Nahuatl-Spanish dialect.; Mangue language.; Drama.; Codices.; Plays (performing arts compositions); Satires (literary works); Manuscripts, Spanish.; Texts.; Manuscripts, Nahuatl.

Resource Type:

Manuscripts

Physical Description:

36 leaves : paper; 267 x 208 (181 x 129) mm bound to 273 x 218 mm

Personal Name:

Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899, former owner.; Berendt, C. Hermann (Carl Hermann), 1817-1878, former owner.

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?

Notes:

Title from title page (p. i).; Origin: Copied in Masaya, Nicaragua, in 1874.; Ms. codex.; Pagination: Paper, 36; [xviii, 1-3], 4-53; pagination by the writer in ink, upper outer corners.; Layout: Written in 27-28 lines per page.; Binding: Late 19th-century half leather with marbled boards.; Watermark: PIRIE's Old Style.; Script: In the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.; Nahuatl-Spanish dialect, with title page, personas, and a few notes in Spanish.

Physical Location:

898.12 MG933 Ms. Coll. 700

Collection:

Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection.