Ms. Coll. 700 Item 89 Vocabulario de la lengua pocomam de Mita
Title
Vocabulario de la lengua pocomam de MitaAuthors
- Valdez, Sebastian
Other related names
- Berendt, C. Hermann 1817-1878, former owner
- Brinton, Daniel Garrison, 1837-1899, former owner
Call number
Ms. Coll. 700 Item 89(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)
Alternate identifiers
- bibid: 9941397733503681
- http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155866642
- http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4139773
Publisher
University of PennsylvaniaLanguage
Spanish, Pokomam, and PokonchiOrigin
Copied in Guatemala in 1875.
- Date
- 1875
- Place
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Guatemala
Summary
C. Hermann Berendt's copy of Sebastian Valdez's 1868 Spanish-Pokomam vocabulary of approximately 80 words grouped by subject, concluding with numerals. The Pokomam is from the town of Mita in the Guatemalan department of Jutiapa. Berendt added in red ink a third column of the equivalents from the Pokonchi of San Cristobal Cajcaj for comparison and a note about the dialects (p. [2]). A fold-out note on different paper is tipped in at the end with references to another source.
Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (p. [1]).
Watermark
Department of State, U.S.Extent
11 leaves : 202 x 126 (150 x 98) mm. bound to 213 x 137 mmCollation
Paper, 11; the manuscript consists of one gathering with a paper cover bound into boards with blank gatherings following; [vi, 1-3], 4-7, [8, viii]; pagination in ink, upper center.Support
PaperBinding
Late 19th- or early 20th-century cloth.Layout
Script
Provenance
- Copied from a manuscript belonging to Juan Gavarrette Escobar, in Guatemala.
- From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page).
Subjects topical
- Pokomam language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
- Pokonchi language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
- Mayan languages--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
- Indians of Central America--Guatemala--Languages
Genres
- Codices
- Glossaries
- Manuscripts, Spanish--19th century
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