Details

Subjects:

Xinca language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Indians of Central America -- Guatemala -- Languages.
Indians of Central America.
Xinca language.
Guatemala.
Language and languages.
Guatemala -- Languages.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Glossaries.
Manuscripts, Spanish.
Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Controlled vocabularies.

Language:

Spanish and Xinca.

Biography/History:

Guatemalan paleographer, archivist, and historian.

Summary:

C. Hermann Berendt's compilation of vocabularies in the Xinca language. He compares equivalents for approximately 90 words collected from the southern Guatemalan communities of Sinacantan, Yupiltepeque (probably today's San Luis Jilotepeque), and Jalapa by Juan Gavarrette Escobar and Sebastian Valdez in 1868. The words are grouped by subject and conclude with numerals.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (p. [1]).
Collation: Paper, 12; the manuscript consists of one gathering bound into boards with blank gatherings following; [iv, 1-3], 4-15, [16, iv]; pagination in ink, upper center.
Layout: Each opening written in four columns of up to 19 lines, with Spanish and the Xinca of Sinacantan on the left and the Xinca of Yupiltepeque and Jalapa on the facing page on the right.
Script: Written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.
Watermark: Department of State, U.S.
Binding: Late 19th-century quarter leather.
Origin: Copied in Guatemala in 1875.

Penn Provenance:

Copied from manuscripts 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. 27 (no. 139).
Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 681 (no. 176).
Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 377 (no. 4338).

Publications about:

In Brinton, Daniel G. "On the language and ethnologic position of the Xinca Indians of Guatemala." Proceedings of the Americal Philosophical Society, Vol. 22, No. 118 (Mar., 1885), 89-97.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 139

Contributor:

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

OCLC:

155932857