Apuntes y estudios sobre la lengua zoque

Name:

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

Date:

1869/1870

Description:

Draft notes on the Zoque language, based on the explanations of Joaquin Santomé and others. Subjects include Zoque translations of prayers, vocabulary including a page on slang (p. 13), orthography, grammar, a comparison of Zoque and Maya (p. 36), numerals, and geographic names. Items laid in include a pencil sketch titled Filomena, a letter from José Maria Sanchez to Berendt, a list of pueblos where Zoque was spoken, and additional notes (10 items, 10 ff.). Seven of these items that are larger than the notebook have been removed, unfolded, and shelved together with the notebook.

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:

Zoque language -- Grammar; Zoque language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc; Zoque language -- Writing; Indians of Mexico -- Languages; Zoque language; Writing; Language and languages

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices; Grammars (instructional materials); Glossaries; Notebooks; Notes (documents); Drawings (visual works); Sketches; Manuscripts, Mexican; Manuscripts, Spanish; Glossaries, vocabularies, etc; Controlled vocabularies; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

37 leaves : paper, illustrations; 210 x 174 mm bound to 210 x 180 mm

Geographic Subject:

Mexico -- Languages; Mexico

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title and attribution from title page (p. [iii]).; Pagination: Paper, 37; [iv], 1-34, 34a, 35a, 35-63, [iii]; pagination in Berendt's hand in ink, upper outer corners.; Decoration: Pencil sketch of a Zoque woman, highlighted with blue ink, titled Juliana Vasquez, 1870 (p. [ii]); pencil sketch of a Zoque woman with bowl and chicken, highlighted with blue ink and labeled with Zoque words, perhaps titled Juliana de Tuxtla (inside back cover); pen-and-ink sketch of two school children, dated 1869 (glued in after p. 8). Red, green, and blue ink used in text.; Binding: Quarter leather notebook with marbled cardboard covers; spine splitting.; Origin: Written in Tuxtla Gutiérrez in 1869 and 1870.; Spanish and Zoque.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 700 Item 111

Collection:

Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection