Vocabulary of the Muysca, Mosca or Chibcha language / from various authors collected by Will[iam] Bollaert ; and alphabetically arranged by C. H[ermann] B[erendt]. [ca. 1873]

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Bollaert, William, 1807-1876. Vocabulary of the Muysca, Mosca or Chibcha language / from various authors collected by Will[iam] Bollaert ; and alphabetically arranged by C. H[ermann] B[erendt].

Vocabulary of the Muysca, Mosca or Chibcha language / from various authors collected by Will[iam] Bollaert ; and alphabetically arranged by C. H[ermann] B[erendt]. [ca. 1873]

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C. Hermann Berendt's transcription of 154 vocabulary entries, including 19 numbers, for counting 1 to 100, in Chibcha, or Chibchan languages, with English equivalent, from various authors; all of the vocabulary is derived from William Bollaert's book entitled Antiquarian, ethnological, and other researches in New Granada, Equador, Peru and Chile (London, 1860), mainly from a section headed: On the Chibcha, Muisa or Mosca language (Bollaert, p. 60-64), in which Bollaert first cites Hermann E. Ludewig on the topic, and then gives a compendium of vocabularies recorded, from the 16th through 19th century, pertaining apparently to Indians inhabiting the plateau of Bogotá, Colombia. As Berendt recounts in the preface (p. 3), Bollaert includes vocabulary that he compiled himself (based on his reading), as well as vocabularies attributed to the following authors: Ternaux-Compans (quoting from Piedrahita, Simon, and others); Lorenzo Hervás; Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas; Isaac F. Holton; Antonio De Ulloa; Berthold Seemann; José Domingo Duquesne; Edme-François Jomard; and E.G. Squier. Berendt integrates the vocabularies into a unified list alphabetized according to the Chibchan words, while marking the entries according to the source. The words for numbers are integrated alphabetically, but also given again in a separate list (p. 16), in which pictographic symbols are included for the numbers 1 to 10, and 20. On a separate leaf (tipped in, p. 17), Berendt also gives Coconuco and Pubenano words (an additional 15 vocabulary entries), with English equivalents, taken from the same section in Bollaert's book (he remarks that Bollaert did not specify the source), and summarizes information on those groups from elsewhere in the book; there is a list of references on the verso of the same leaf. A small rectangular piece of paper containing another separate list of the numbers 1 to 10 and 20 (with pictographic symbol, numeral, and word), which was originally tipped in (p. 16), has been removed and is housed in a separate folder shelved with the bound volume in which the manuscript is contained.

12 leaves : paper ; 202 x 125 (150-155 x 100) mm. bound to 215 x 150 mm. + 1 note.

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