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Title

Diccionario pocomchi-castellano y castellano-pocomchi de S. Cristobal Cahcoh

Other related names

• Berendt, C. Hermann 1817-1878, former owner
• Brinton, Daniel Garrison, 1837-1899, former owner

Call number

Ms. Coll. 700 Item 61
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9938744613503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79478967
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3874461

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Spanish and Pokonchi

Origin

Date

15--

Place

Guatemala?

Summary

A 19th-century rebinding of fragments from a 16th-century dictionary and vocabulary for Pokonchi and Spanish.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from Berendt's 19th-century title page (f. 5r).
   
• Berendt suggests in his notes that the author may have been Padre Fray Francisco (or Franco?) de Viana, who was in Verapaz between 1575 and 1608 (ff. 3v-4r of the pages laid in); a photostatic copy of a manuscript at Tulane University with the same title is attributed to Dionisio de Zuniga (Weeks).
   
• Many of the pages have been repaired; the first and last several pages remain fragile.
   
• The four leaves laid in at the end of the work include Berendt's rough draft of the table of contents bound in at the front of the volume and his notes about the manuscript.
   

Extent

166 leaves (with 4 leaves laid in) : 295 x 206 (261 x 172) mm. and 305 x 208 (267 x 175) bound to 319 x 238 mm

Foliation

Paper, 166; 8 (19th-century paper) + 9-79 + 80-87 (19th-century paper) + 88-[162] + [163-166] (19th-century paper) + 4 leaves laid in; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Late 19th-century half leather.

Layout

Written in two uneven columns, a wider one along the gutter and a narrower one along the outer edge of each page; in the dictionary, the wider column is labeled Pocomchi and the narrower column is labeled Romanze, and each follows a separate alphabet; in the vocabulary, the wider column is labeled Nombres and the narrower column Adverbios.

Provenance

• Gift to C. Hermann Berendt from D. Luis Rojas of S. Cristobal, Chiapas, a former Dominican friar and parish priest of San Cristobal Cahcoh, in 1875 (f. 5r).
   
• From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page).
   

Subjects topical

• Pokonchi language--Dictionaries--Spanish
• Spanish language--Dictionaries--Pokonchi
• Pokonchi language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
• Mayan languages--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.--Early works to 1800
• Indians of Central America--Guatemala--Languages--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Dictionaries
• Glossaries
• Manuscripts, Spanish--16th century
• Manuscripts, Latin American

Licenses

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