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Vocabulario de la lengua pocomam de Mita / por D. Sebastian Valdez, cura de Jutiapa.

Author/Creator:
Valdez, Sebastian.
Publication:
Guatemala, 1875.
Format/Description:
Manuscript
11 leaves : paper ; 202 x 126 (150 x 98) mm bound to 213 x 137 mm
Contained In:
Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection. Item 89
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Subjects:
Pokomam language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Pokonchi language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Mayan languages -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Indians of Central America -- Guatemala -- Languages.
Indians of Central America.
Mayan languages.
Pokonchi language.
Pokomam language.
Guatemala.
Language and languages.
Guatemala -- Languages.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Glossaries.
Manuscripts, Spanish.
Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Controlled vocabularies.
Language:
Spanish, Pokomam, and Pokonchi.
Summary:
C. Hermann Berendt's copy of Sebastian Valdez's 1868 Spanish-Pokomam vocabulary of approximately 80 words grouped by subject, concluding with numerals. The Pokomam is from the town of Mita in the Guatemalan department of Jutiapa. Berendt added in red ink a third column of the equivalents from the Pokonchi of San Cristobal Cajcaj for comparison and a note about the dialects (p. [2]). A fold-out note on different paper is tipped in at the end with references to another source.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (p. [1]).
Collation: Paper, 11; the manuscript consists of one gathering with a paper cover bound into boards with blank gatherings following; [vi, 1-3], 4-7, [8, viii]; pagination in ink, upper center.
Layout: Written in three columns of 19 lines for Spanish (black), Pokomam (black), and Pokonchi (red).
Script: Written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.
Watermark: Department of State, U.S.
Binding: Late 19th- or early 20th-century cloth.
Origin: Copied in Guatemala in 1875.
Penn Provenance:
Copied from a manuscript belonging to Juan Gavarrette Escobar, in Guatemala.
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. 20 (no. 89).
Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 679 (no. 165).
Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 371 (no. 4258).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 89
Contributor:
Berendt, C. Hermann (Carl Hermann), 1817-1878, former owner.
Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899, former owner.
OCLC:
155932853