Platica en lengua pocomchi

Name:

Aguilar, Francisco, active 1816-1823

Date:

1875

Description:

A late 19th-century copy of a sermon delivered by Aguilar in Tamahun on 17 December 1822 in Pokonchi with parallel translation in Spanish on the topic, Para que los yndios no digan al ministro: Quando te bas?

Language:

Spanish; Castilian

Provenance:

Copied from an manuscript originally in the parochial archives of Cahabón, Alta Verapaz.; From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page).; Berendt, C. Hermann 1817-1878, former owner.; Brinton, Daniel G. 1837-1899, former owner.

Subject:

Catholic Church -- Sermons; Catholic Church; Mayan languages; Pokonchi language; Pokonchi language -- Texts; Mayan languages -- Texts; Indians of Central America -- Guatemala -- Languages; Indians of Central America; Language and languages; Sermons, Pokonchi; Sermons, Spanish

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Sermons; Translations (documents); Manuscripts, Spanish; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

16 leaves : paper; 183 x 128 (134 x 95) mm bound to 188 x 137 mm

Geographic Subject:

Guatemala; Guatemala -- Languages

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Dominican friar, parish priest of Tactic, Guatemala.; Title of item from title page (f. iii r); topic of sermon in Spanish is caption heading across first pages of both the Pokonchi and Spanish texts (pp. 3-4).; The original from which this manuscript was copied is in the same collection as Ms. Coll. 700 Item 65; it is also the source of the monogram that appears on the verso of the title page of the copy with the caption "Monograma del P. Aguilar en este original y en varios manuscritos de su letra en el archivo parroquial de Tactic" (p. [1]).; A note by Berendt following the sermon explains that it was given while Señor Don Vicente Filisola, "Presidente de Guatemala," was engaged in war with San Salvador (p. 24).; Pagination: Paper, 32; v, [1-2], 3-4, 6-24, iv; contemporary pagination in ink, upper center.; Layout: Written in 14-15 long lines, ruled in lead, with Pokonchi text on the left side and Spanish on the right of each double-page spread.; Script: In the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.; Watermark: Department of State, U.S.; Binding: Late 19th-century half leather.; Origin: Copied in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, in 1875 (Berendt note, p. [2]).; Pokonchi and Spanish.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 700 Item 64

Collection:

Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection