Doctrina christiana en lengua chapaneca : fragmento de un manuscrito anónimo

Date:

1869

Description:

An 1869 copy of a portion of a collection of Catholic texts and prayers from the 17th or 18th century, translated into the Chiapanec language. Contents include a catechism, several acrostics and anagrams, prayers, a sermon, and a number of pen-and-ink illustrations, including a simple family tree for Jesus (p. 44), a complicated cross with a serpent at its base (p. 55); a woman praying amidst grasses or flames (p. 62); and a skeleton (p. 63).

Language:

Mayan languages

Provenance:

Copied from an original in the possession of Don Angel Camas of Chiapas.; From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page).; Berendt, C. Hermann 1817-1878, former owner.; Brinton, Daniel G. 1837-1899, former owner.

Subject:

Catholic Church -- Doctrines -- Early works to 1800; Catholic Church; Chiapanec language -- Texts; Indians of Mexico -- Languages -- Texts; Indians of Mexico -- Languages; Chiapanec language; Language and languages

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

catechisms; prayers (compositions); translations (documents); Manuscripts, Mexican; Manuscripts, Spanish; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

32 leaves : paper; 213 x 174 (186 x 129) mm bound to 222 x 185 mm

Geographic Subject:

Mexico -- Languages; Mexico

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from title page (f. 3r).; Pagination: Paper, 32; viii, 21-36, 39-67, xiii (blank); page numbers written by Berendt.; Layout: Each page has a double frame in ink around the writing block; written 25 lines per page unless the text is in a special layout.; Script: In the hand of Carl Hermann Berendt.; Binding: Late 19th-century half leather.; Origin: Copied in Tuxtla Gutierrez in 1869.; Chiapanec, with Spanish titles and a few Latin phrases.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 700 Item 117

Collection:

Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection