Vocabulario en lengua tzeldal iuxta ussu[m] oppidii de Copanabastla

Name:

Guzman, Alonso de

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1620

Description:

Early 17th-century revision of Domingo de Ara's 16th-century Spanish-Tzeltal dictionary.

Language:

Spanish; Castilian

Provenance:

A note pasted to the flyleaves of Item 185 suggests that this volume, together with Item 185, passed through the collections of the abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg, A. L. Pinart, and Eugène Boban before Daniel Garrison Brinton purchased it separately from the Berendt collection. Unlike Item 185, this volume does not have a bookplate from the library of Brasseur de Bourbourg.; From the collection of Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page).; Brasseur de Bourbourg, abbé, 1814-1874, former owner.; Pinart, A. L. 1852-1911, former owner.; Boban, Eugène, former owner.; Brinton, Daniel G. 1837-1899, former owner.

Subject:

Tzeltal language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc; Mayan languages -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc. -- Early works to 1800; Indians of Mexico -- Languages -- Early works to 1800; Language and languages; Indians of Mexico -- Languages; Mayan languages; Tzeltal language

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices; Glossaries; Manuscripts, Mexican; Manuscripts, Spanish; Manuscripts, Latin American; Glossaries, vocabularies, etc; Controlled vocabularies; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

221 leaves : paper; 208 x 142 mm bound to 220 x 164 mm

Geographic Subject:

Mexico -- Languages -- Early works to 1800; Mexico

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from caption title page (f. 2r); the name Copanabastla also appears in other sources as Copanahuaxtla and Copanaguastla. A note on previous page states, "De licentia sui prelati ad usum habet Fray Alonso de Guzman, Traslado este bocabulario el sobre dicho P[adr]e el año de 1620 años en la provinçia de los tzeldales en el pueblo de Taquinvitz" (f. 1r).; A manuscript of Domingo de Ara's Vocabulario de la lengua española y tzeldal, the model for Guzman's work, is also in this collection (Ms. Coll. 700, Item 185).; Foliation: Paper, 221; [2-5], 6-109, 109-181, 183-222; contemporary pagination in ink, upper right recto.; Layout: Written in 29-32 long lines; alphabet letters as running title.; Binding: Late 19th-century half leather.; Origin: Written in the Mexican state of Chiapas in 1620.; Spanish and Tzeltal.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 700 Item 184

Collection:

Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection