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Title

Authors

• Berendt, C. Hermann 1817-1878
• Cordon, José Inocenta
• Pais, Eligio
• Bromowicz, Franz

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9957244433503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/790619636

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

1878

Summary

Papers of C. Hermann Berendt related to the expedition of Francisco (Franz) Bromowicz to the Acasaguastlán region and to Jilotepeque, in Guatemala, in 1878, for the purpose of gathering information about the language or dialect of Alaguilac. Includes: 1) a draft letter in the hand of Berendt, dated Guatemala, 24 February 1878, to José Inocenta Cordon, the parish priest of San Cristobál Acasaguastlán, addressed to Cordon at the town of Teculutan; 2) an undated leaf concerning Alaguilac and its relationship to the Chorti language, citing a reference in Cortés y Larraz's work Descripción geográfico-moral, and soliciting responses to six questions about the language (in either Berendt's or Bromowicz's hand); 3) a pencilled map, probably in Berendt's hand, showing the area in eastern Guatemala, including the Motagua and Chimalapan Rivers, and the towns of El Jicaro and Usumatan; and 4) two handwritten documents signed by Eligio Pais, dated 6 February and 15 February 1878, respectively, both bearing the municipal stamp of Chimalapan (in the department of Chiquimula). In the letter Berendt refers to having received from Bromowicz some notes made by Cordon, as well as gifts of manuscripts, including an 1818 sermon on Nuestra Sen̋ora del Santissimo Rosario in Pokonchi language, probably by Father Francisco Aguilar (that manuscript is in the current collection, Ms. Coll. 700, Item 65, f. 26-65), and pages concerning Acasaguastlán villages, apparently a reference to the leaves from the parochial archives known to have been given to Berendt by Cordon (also in the current collection, see Ms. Coll. 700, Item 149). The first of the two documents signed by Pais refers to Cordon's recommendation of Bromowicz. The second, longer document (4 pages) seems to be addressed to Cordon, whose name and title appears at the head. It begins with references to both Berendt and Bromowicz, and seems to discuss in detail matters related to the Alaguilac language, possibly comprising a response to the questionnaire mentioned above. It contains a reference to the year 1607. Some passages are underlined in red ink. The latter document is presumably one of the reports (informes) by Pais on the language that Daniel G. Brinton refers to in his article entitled On the so-called Alaguilac language of Guatemala (Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 24: 366-377; 1887).

Notes

• Item 244 is one of 7 items (Items 242-248), on disparate topics related to the Indians of Central America, that were contained in a cardboard portfolio labelled: Mapas etnológicos.
   

Extent

Provenance

• From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on some items contained in the same file, entitled Mapas etnológicos; no ex libris stamp on the present papers).
   

Subjects topical

• Chorti language
• Chorti language
• Language and languages
• Indians of Central America--Guatemala--Languages
• Indians of Central America
• Alaguilac language
• Guatemala
• Guatemala--Languages

Genres

• Manuscripts, Spanish
• Manuscripts, Latin American

Licenses

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