Confesonario en castellano y poconchi : Tactic, año de 1814

Date:

1875

Description:

A copy of a manual for confessors from 1814 written in parallel columns in Spanish and Pokonchi.

Language:

Spanish; Castilian

Provenance:

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

Subject:

Confession -- Catholic Church -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Sacraments -- Catholic Church -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Indians of Central America -- Guatemala -- Languages; Indians of Central America; Mayan languages; Pokonchi language; Sacraments -- Catholic Church; Confession -- Catholic Church; Language and languages; Pokonchi language -- Texts; Mayan languages -- Texts

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials); Translations (documents); Manuscripts, Spanish; Handbooks and manuals; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

26 leaves : paper; 216 x 154 (160 x 105) mm bound to 222 x 162 mm

Geographic Subject:

Guatemala; Guatemala -- Languages

Rights:

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

Notes:

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).; Pagination: Paper, 26; viii + 40 + iv; contemporary pagination in ink, upper center.; Layout: Written in two columns of 20 lines, divided by a double line in ink, left column Spanish and right column Pokonchi.; Script: In the hand of C. Hermann Berendt (f. 4r).; Binding: Late 19th-century half leather.; Origin: Copied in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, in 1875.; Spanish and Pokonchi.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 700 Item 67

Collection:

Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection