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Confesonario en castellano y poconchi : Tactic, año de 1814.

Publication:
[Cobán, Guatemala], [1875]
Format/Description:
Manuscript
26 leaves : paper ; 216 x 154 (160 x 105) mm bound to 222 x 162 mm
Contained In:
Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection. Item 67
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Other Title:
Dialogo entre confesor y penitente, ò modo de confesar yndios en lengua poconchi.
Subjects:
Confession -- Catholic Church -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Sacraments -- Catholic Church -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Indians of Central America -- Guatemala -- Languages.
Indians of Central America.
Mayan languages.
Pokonchi language.
Sacraments -- Catholic Church.
Confession -- Catholic Church.
Guatemala.
Language and languages.
Pokonchi language -- Texts.
Mayan languages -- Texts.
Guatemala -- Languages.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Manuals (instructional materials)
Translations (documents)
Manuscripts, Spanish.
Texts.
Handbooks and manuals.
Language:
Spanish and Pokonchi.
Summary:
A copy of a manual for confessors from 1814 written in parallel columns in Spanish and Pokonchi.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 3r); a longer caption title, Dialogo entre confesor y penitente, ò modo de confesar yndios en lengua poconchi, appears above the beginning of the text (p. 1).
Pagination: Paper, 26; viii + 40 + iv; contemporary pagination in ink, upper center.
Layout: Written in two columns of 20 lines, divided by a double line in ink, left column Spanish and right column Pokonchi.
Script: In the hand of C. Hermann Berendt (f. 4r).
Binding: Late 19th-century half leather.
Origin: Copied in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, in 1875.
Penn Provenance:
Copied from an original in the parochial archives of Tactic, Guatemala, loaned to Berendt by Fr. Silvestre Mijangos, parish priest of Tactic (f. 4r).
From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page).
Cited in:
Described in Brinton, Daniel Garrison. Catalogue of the Berendt Linguistic Collection (Department of Archaeology and Paleontology, University of Pennsylvania, 1900), p. 17 (no. 67).
Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), pp. 647-648 (no. 60).
Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 125-126 (no. 1110).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 67
Contributor:
Berendt, C. Hermann (Carl Hermann), 1817-1878, former owner.
Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899, former owner.
OCLC:
155928789