Vocabulario de la lengua pocomam de Mita

Contributor:

Berendt, C. Hermann 1817-1878 (former owner); Brinton, Daniel G. 1837-1899 (former owner)

Name:

Valdez, Sebastian

Date:

1875

Description:

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.

Language:

Spanish; Castilian

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).

Subject:

Pokomam language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc; Pokonchi language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc; Mayan languages -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc; Indians of Central America -- Guatemala -- Languages; Indians of Central America; Mayan languages; Pokonchi language; Pokomam language; Language and languages

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices; Glossaries; Manuscripts, Spanish; Glossaries, vocabularies, etc; Controlled vocabularies

Physical Description:

11 leaves : paper; 202 x 126 (150 x 98) mm bound to 213 x 137 mm

Geographic Subject:

Guatemala; Guatemala -- Languages

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from title page (p. [1]).; Collation: 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.; Layout: Written in three columns of 19 lines for Spanish (black), Pokomam (black), and Pokonchi (red).; Script: Written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.; Watermark: Department of State, U.S.; Binding: Late 19th- or early 20th-century cloth.; Origin: Copied in Guatemala in 1875.; Spanish, Pokomam, and Pokonchi.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 700

Collection:

Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection