Provenance

Gift of Theodor Schultz, 1819.

Preferred citation

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

Processing information

Recatalogued by rsc, 2002.

Alternate formats available

These materials are also available on microfilm (Film 1349).

Other finding aids

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

General physical description

0.3 linear feet

General note

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.

Early American History Note

This large volume contains German to Arawak dictionary. Thomas Schulz, a German Moravian missionary to British Guiana, compiled the dictionary in the nineteenth century and sent it to the APS.