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Title

Authors

• Edwards, Amory, 1814-1881

Other related names

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

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9947421593503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/537164712
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4742159

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

between 1858 and 1878

Summary

Vocabulary list of 37 words, and the numbers 1 to 10, and 20, in Spanish and Jicaque (Xicaque), transcribed by C. Hermann Berendt, from a brief article published in November 1858 by E.G. Squier under the title Les indiens xicaques du Honduras, in Nouvelles annales des voyages (vol. 4, p. 133-136; Berendt notes the source on the title page). Squier's article mainly consisted of a direct quotation from a communication that he received from Amory Edwards about the Jicaque Indians, which included the Jicaque vocabulary (p. 135). Whereas the article was in French and conveyed French vocabulary with the Jicaque equivalents, Berendt translates the French words into Spanish. Berendt also includes a narrative passage in Spanish, attributed to Squier (p. 2), which describes the areas of Honduras where the Jicaque Indians were living at that time, with 5,000 of them in the department of Yoro, and 1,000 in that of Santa Bárbara. The passage is a free translation of selected information about the Jicaque Indians contained in the part of Squier's article that directly quotes from Edwards. A few annotations by Berendt include two words in Nahuatl (tliltic, mazatl; p. 3) that are similar to the Jicaque.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (p. 1).
   
• This was the eighth 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.
   

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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

• Jicaque language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
• Indians of Central America--Honduras--Languages

Genres

• Glossaries
• Manuscripts, Spanish--19th century
• Manuscripts, Latin American

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