Vocabulario de la lengua de los indios de Boruca (Costa Pacífica de Costarica)

Contributor:

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

Name:

Valentini, Philipp J. J. 1828-1899

Date:

1862

Description:

C. Hermann Berendt's transcription of a vocabulary list of 146 entries, including the numbers 1 to 8, in Spanish and Boruca, the language of the Boruca Indians residing in southwestern Costa Rica, on the Pacific coast. According to the title page the vocabulary was collected by Philipp J. J. Valentini in 1862; the date of Berendt's transcription of it is unknown. A preface by Berendt (p. 3) describes Boruca as a Franciscan mission to which the Terraba Indians also belong; Berendt states that the town or village of Boruca was known to early Spanish explorers, citing an expedition of Gaspar de Espinosa in 1516. The text includes a few annotations by Berendt.

Language:

Spanish; Castilian

Provenance:

From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on the verso of front free endpaper in the bound volume that once contained the present item).

Subject:

Boruca language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc; Indians of Central America -- Costa Rica; Indians of Central America; Boruca language; Language and languages

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Glossaries; Manuscripts, Spanish; Manuscripts, Latin American; Glossaries, vocabularies, etc; Controlled vocabularies

Physical Description:

6 leaves : paper; 210 x 133 (155 x 85) mm bound to 210 x 133 mm

Geographic Subject:

Costa Rica; Costa Rica -- Languages

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from title page (p. 1).; This was the sixteenth of 19 manuscripts formerly bound together, probably by Daniel Garrison Brinton, and now disbound (Items 129-136, 143, 145, 146, 151-155, and 157-159). The bound volume had the spine title: Languages of Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica.; Pagination: Paper, ii + 6 + ii leaves; [1-5], 6-12; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.; Layout: Vocabulary written in 2 columns of 20 lines, with Spanish on the left and Boruca on the right. Preface (p. 3) written in long lines.; Script: Written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.; Binding: Contemporary paper covers; sewn.; Origin: Written sometime between Valentini's collection of the vocabulary in 1862 and C. Hermann Berendt's death in 1878.; Spanish and Boruca; preface in English.

Physical Location:

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

Collection:

Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection