Theodor Schultz
Arawak manuscripts
1803
(0.3 linear feet)

498.3 Sch8

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Table of contents Abstract
Theodor Schultz was a Moravian missionary in British Guiana at the turn of the nineteenth century. The Arawak language manuscripts sent to the APS by him include both a grammatical treatise (organized upon the Latin model) and an extensive Arawak-German dictionary.
Background note
Theodor Schultz was a Moravian missionary in British Guiana at the turn of the nineteenth century.


Scope and content
The Arawak language manuscripts sent to the APS by Theodor Schultz include both a grammatical treatise (organized upon the Latin model) and an extensive Arawak-German dictionary.

Administrative information
Restrictions
None.

Provenance
Gift of Theodor Schultz, 1819.

Preferred citation
Cite as: Theodor Schultz, [Name of Manuscript], American Philosophical Society.

Processing information
Recatalogued by rsc, 2002.

Other finding aids
The Schultz manuscripts are indexed in the On-line Guide to American Indian Manuscripts (number 164, 165, 412, and 413).

Additional information

Conservation report
The Grammar was treated by the conservation department in April 1936. Originally bound on two vellum tapes, case-in style, with blue paper sides and white laid paper backbone. The volume was taken apart, pages were resized, flattened, and repaired, stripped and resewn into Kelmscott endpapers. Old boards split and new vellum strips inserted and glued; new vellum backbone slipped under paper sides; back lettered.

Added entries
Subjects
  • Arawak language
  • Arawak language--Dictionaries--German
  • Indians of South America--Languages
  • Linguistics
  • Moravians--Missions

    • Contributors
  • Schultz, Theodor

    • Genre terms
  • Dictionaries

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    Contact information
    American Philosophical Society
    105 South Fifth Street
    Philadelphia, PA 19106-3386

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    ©2003


    Detailed inventory

    		 498.3 Sch8. Schultz, Theodor, Aruwakkisch Deucthes Wörterbuch 1803 622p.

    		A dictionary with German equivalents and examples, as well as alphabetical Arawak index.


    		498.3 Sch8g. Schultz, Theodor, Grammatische Sätze von der Aruwakkischen Sprache 1803 173p.

    		A grammatical treatise based upon a Latin model, with Latin terms used throughout, though most of the text is German