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Other Title:

Doctrina cristiana quekchí y pocomchí.

Subjects:

Catholic Church -- Doctrines.
Catholic Church.
Pokonchi language -- Texts.
Kekchi language -- Texts.
Mayan languages -- Texts.
Indians of Central America -- Guatemala -- Languages.
Indians of Central America.
Mayan languages.
Kekchi language.
Pokonchi language.
Guatemala.
Language and languages.
Guatemala -- Languages.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Prayers.
Translations (documents)
Manuscripts, Spanish.
Texts.

Language:

Spanish, Kekchi, and Pokonchi.

Summary:

Interlinear translation in Spanish, Kekchi, and Pokonchi of the Lord's Prayer, the Ave Maria, the Apostles' Creed, the Ten Commandments, and "Las obras de misericordia."

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 3r); Berendt wrote the abbreviated title Doctrina cristiana quekchí y pocomchí on the paper cover.
Collation: Paper, fol. ii + 8 + ii (all with watermarks V and J); modern pencil foliation, lower right recto.
Layout: Written in 8 or 9 triple lines (Spanish, Kekchi, Pokonchi) per page, with red vertical lines dividing the text into sense units.
Binding: Paper cover over an unsewn gathering.
Origin: Written in Santo Domingo, Cobán, Guatemala, in 1875.

Penn Provenance:

From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on Berendt's paper cover).

Cited in:

Described in Brinton, Daniel Garrison. Catalogue of the Berendt Linguistic Collection (Department of Archaeology and Paleontology, University of Pennsylvania, 1900), p. 18 (no. 81).
Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 680 (no. 172).
Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 374 (no. 4302).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 81

Contributor:

Berendt, C. Hermann (Carl Hermann), 1817-1878, former owner.
Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899, former owner.

Contains:

Lord's prayer. Kekchi.
Lord's prayer. Pokonchi.
Ave Maria. Kekchi.
Ave Maria. Pokonchi.
Apostles' Creed. Kekchi.
Apostles' Creed. Pokonchi.
Ten commandments. Kekchi.
Ten commandments. Pokonchi.

OCLC:

155928856