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Title

Authors

• Alvarado, Lucas

Other related names

• Berendt, C. Hermann 1817-1878, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93073368)
• Brinton, Daniel G. 1837-1899, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78096900)

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9947469693503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/557275359

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

between 1866 and 1878

Summary

C. Hermann Berendt's transcription of 71 vocabulary entries in Spanish and a language spoken by the Indians in the village of Cachi, in the Orosi valley, in the province of Cartago, Costa Rica. The vocabulary was collected by Lucas Alvarado, apparently in 1866. The language is probably related to Cabecar, or to both Cabecar and Bribri. A note in pencil running vertically along the outer margin of the title page reads: It is the Cabecar dialect of Talamanca and worthless for that. For the manuscript in Alvarado's hand upon which Berendt's transcription is based, see Ms.Coll. 700, Item 150; the latter also includes 2 letters from Alvarado to Berendt, both dated in 1873, and an expanded comparative vocabulary, in which the Cachi words in this manuscript appear under the Spanish heading: común Cachi y Biseita (Viceita); Berendt corrects the heading to read simply: Cachi. In the correspondence in Item 150 Alvarado also refers to the vocabulary as that of the Indians of Orosi (also in Cartago province). The manuscript contains annotations in pencil, including the labeling of some words as: C & B; or simply: B.

Notes

• Title from title page (p. 1).
   
• This was the eighteenth of 19 manuscripts formerly bound together, probably by Daniel Garrison Brinton, and now disbound (Items 129-136, 143, 145, 146, 151-155, and 157-159). The bound volume had the spine title: Languages of Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
   
• Ms. codex.
   

Extent

Foliation

Support

Binding

Layout

Script

Provenance

• From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on the verso of front free endpaper in the bound volume that once contained the present item).
   

Subjects topical

• Cabecar language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
• Indians of Central America--Costa Rica--Languages
• Indians of Central America
• Cabecar language
• Language and languages
• Costa Rica--Languages
• Costa Rica

Genres

• Glossaries
• Manuscripts, Spanish
• Controlled vocabularies
• Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
• Controlled vocabularies
• Manuscripts, Latin American

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