Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Confesonario en castellano y poconchi

Other related names

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

Call number

Ms. Coll. 700 Item 67
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9938723493503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79478963
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3872349

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Spanish and Pokonchi

Origin

Date

1875

Place

Cobán, Guatemala

Summary

A copy of a manual for confessors from 1814 written in parallel columns in Spanish and Pokonchi.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 3r); a longer caption title, Dialogo entre confesor y penitente, ò modo de confesar yndios en lengua poconchi, appears above the beginning of the text (p. 1).
   

Extent

26 leaves : 216 x 154 (160 x 105) mm. bound to 222 x 162 mm

Foliation

Paper, 26; viii + 40 + iv; contemporary pagination in ink, upper center.

Support

Paper

Binding

Late 19th-century half leather.

Layout

Written in two columns of 20 lines, divided by a double line in ink, left column Spanish and right column Pokonchi.

Script

In the hand of C. Hermann Berendt (f. 4r).

Provenance

• Copied from an original in the parochial archives of Tactic, Guatemala, loaned to Berendt by Fr. Silvestre Mijangos, parish priest of Tactic (f. 4r).
   
• From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page).
   

Subjects topical

• Confession--Catholic Church--Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Sacraments--Catholic Church--Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Indians of Central America--Guatemala--Languages
• Pokonchi language--Texts
• Mayan languages--Texts

Genres

• Codices
• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Translations
• Manuscripts, Spanish--19th century

Licenses

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