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

Title

Authors

• Bromowicz, Franz

Other related names

• Cordon, José Inocenta, former owner
• Berendt, C. Hermann 1817-1878, former owner
• Brinton, Daniel G. 1837-1899, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9938923383503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79463665
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3892338

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

1636, 1878

Place

San Agustin Acasaguastlan (Guatemala)

Summary

Two documents giving examples of the Nahuatl language: a 17th-century legal document and a late 19th-century vocabulary by Franz Bromowicz, sewn together. The legal document comprises extracts from the parish archives of San Cristobál Acasaguastlán, dated from 1610 to 1637. (For a draft letter of Berendt to the parish priest, dated 24 February 1878, concerning his receipt of this document, see Ms. Coll. 700, Item 244.) The vocabulary is prefaced by an account in Spanish by Angel Flores of Bromowicz's linguistic efforts, bearing the municipal stamp of San Agustin. Equivalents of the Nahuatl words are given in Spanish and also sometimes German. A note by C. Hermann Berendt in German at the head of the vocabulary list gives Bromowicz's source as a 100-year-old woman named Dolores Corral who could still remember the language.

Notes

• Ms. gathering.
   
• Title from paper cover; dates from documents (1636, f. 4v; 1878, f. 1r).
   
• Condition: The 17th-century document is brittle; due to ink oxidation, there is a hole in the first leaf and there is more minor oxidation on the second leaf.
   

Extent

Collation

Support

Binding

Provenance

• Legal document from the parish archives of San Cristobál Acasaguastlán, given to Berendt by the parish priest, José Inocenta Cordon, in 1878 (note by Berendt in pencil, f. i).
   
• From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Nahuatl language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
• Nahuatl language--Texts--Early works to 1800
• Indians of Central America--Guatemala--Languages--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Glossaries
• Manuscripts, Spanish--19th century

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Rare Book & Manuscript Library Ms. Coll. 700 Item 149: Nahuatl de San Agustin Acasaguastlan are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

  URL

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• Text

  Metadata is ©2019 University of Pennsylvania Libraries and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

  URL

  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode