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Title

Authors

• Alvarado, Lucas

Other related names

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

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9947469673503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/557270674
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4746967

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

1873

Place

Cartago (Costa Rica)

Summary

Handwritten manuscript (bifolium) containing approximately 291 vocabulary entries in Spanish and an Indian dialect spoken in Cachi and/or Orosi, towns in the Orosi valley, in the Paraiso canton of the province of Cartago, Costa Rica; the language probably is related to Cabecar, or to both Cabecar and Bribri. An additional column contains, in some instances, an equivalent in a third Indian language or dialect that is labeled Biceita (Viceita, Vizeita); that language probably corresponds generally to Bribri. A few annotations are in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt, including the addition of the date 1873 at the head. The vocabulary is accompanied by 2 handwritten letters from Alvarado to Berendt, dated 24 July and 14 October 1873 (a larger and a smaller bifolium, respectively). The leaves of the vocabulary and the letters all bear the embossed stamp of Lucas Alvarado, Cartago, in the upper left corner. It appears that the bifolium bearing the vocabulary was enclosed with the first letter. In that letter Alvarado refers several times to the Indians of Orosi, and once specifically to the dialect of the Indians of the town of Orosi; at one point he discusses their history, and refers to their moving to Cachi after the Spanish colonization. The heading over the vocabulary reads in Spanish: común Cachi y Biseita (in the first occurrence Berendt emends the heading to read simply: Cachi). There is a note by Alvarado concerning orthography at the end of the vocabulary, and reference to the same matter in the letter. The letter discusses the relationship of the Orosi language to languages of other groups, mentioning Tucurrique, Biseitas, and Blancos; the Indians of Chiriqui are also mentioned. Reference is made in both letters to Philipp J. J. Valentini as a mutual friend. Also included is a single blue sheet with approximately 70 vocabulary entries in Spanish and an Indian dialect. That sheet appears also to be in Alvarado's hand, and to represent a subset of the Cachi vocabulary on the bifolium, with slightly different orthography. Berendt has added a heading at the top: Vocabulary of the language of the Indians of Cachi, formerly in Orosi, near Cartago, Costa Rica, taken by Dr. Lucas Alvarado. For Berendt's transcription of the 70-word vocabulary, see Ms. Coll. 700, Item 151; in the latter Berendt dates the collection of the vocabulary to 1866, suggesting that the blue sheet might date to that earlier time.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (front of paper folder).
   

Extent

Foliation

Support

Script

Provenance

• From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page).
   

Subjects topical

• Cabecar language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
• Bribri dialect--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
• Indians of Central America--Costa Rica--Languages

Genres

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

Licenses

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