Description of University of Pennsylvania Ms. Coll. 700 Item 117: Doctrina christiana en lengua chapaneca University of Pennsylvania These images and the content of Rare Book & Manuscript Library Ms. Coll. 700 Item 117: Doctrina christiana en lengua chapaneca are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. Metadata is ©2019 University of Pennsylvania Libraries and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Ms. codex. Title from title page (f. 3r). 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104-6206. University of Pennsylvania Rare Book & Manuscript Library Ms. Coll. 700 Item 117 9938799633503681 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79463595 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3879963 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). Chiapanec, with Spanish titles and a few Latin phrases Doctrina christiana en lengua chapaneca former owner Berendt, C. Hermann 1817-1878 former owner Brinton, Daniel Garrison, 1837-1899

paper

 32 leaves : 213 x 174 (186 x 129) mm. bound to 222 x 185 mm Paper, 32; viii, 21-36, 39-67, xiii (blank); page numbers written by Berendt. 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. In the hand of Carl Hermann Berendt.

Late 19th-century half leather.

Copied in Tuxtla Gutierrez in 1869.

1869 Tuxtla Gutierrez 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). Catholic Church--Doctrines--Early works to 1800 Chiapanec language--Texts Indians of Mexico--Languages--Texts Codices Catechisms Prayers Translations Manuscripts, Mexican--19th century Manuscripts, Spanish--19th century