Description of University of Pennsylvania Ms. Coll. 700 Item 67: Confesonario en castellano y poconchi University of Pennsylvania These images and the content of Rare Book & Manuscript Library Ms. Coll. 700 Item 67: Confesonario en castellano y poconchi 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/. 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/. Ms. codex. Title from title page (f. 3r); a longer caption title, Dialogo entre confesor y penitente, ò modo de confesar yndios en lengua poconchi, appears above the beginning of the text (p. 1). 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104-6206. University of Pennsylvania Rare Book & Manuscript Library Ms. Coll. 700 Item 67 9938723493503681 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79478963 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3872349 A copy of a manual for confessors from 1814 written in parallel columns in Spanish and Pokonchi. Spanish and Pokonchi Confesonario en castellano y poconchi former owner Berendt, C. Hermann 1817-1878 former owner Brinton, Daniel Garrison, 1837-1899

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 26 leaves : 216 x 154 (160 x 105) mm. bound to 222 x 162 mm Paper, 26; viii + 40 + iv; contemporary pagination in ink, upper center. Written in two columns of 20 lines, divided by a double line in ink, left column Spanish and right column Pokonchi. In the hand of C. Hermann Berendt (f. 4r).

Late 19th-century half leather.

Copied in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, in 1875.

1875 Cobán, Guatemala Copied from an original in the parochial archives of Tactic, Guatemala, loaned to Berendt by Fr. Silvestre Mijangos, parish priest of Tactic (f. 4r). From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page). Confession--Catholic Church--Handbooks, manuals, etc Sacraments--Catholic Church--Handbooks, manuals, etc Indians of Central America--Guatemala--Languages Pokonchi language--Texts Mayan languages--Texts Codices Manuals (instructional materials) Translations Manuscripts, Spanish--19th century