Libro en pocomchi y kekchi

Name:

Aguilera, Hippolito de

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1700

Description:

A collection of sermons, catechisms, and other religious documents translated into Kekchi and Pokonchi, as well as a Kekchi grammar and lists of phrases in the two dialects. Also includes a small amount of musical notation for a Latin chant (f. 59v). Those documents which are dated are from the late 1730s and early 1740s. A table of contents by C. Hermann Berendt precedes the documents.

Language:

Mayan languages

Provenance:

Documents from the parochial archives of Coban, Vera Paz, given by Don Manuel Gonzalez, priest and vicar of Coban, to C. Hermann Berendt in 1875.; From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on first title page and first leaf of original manuscripts).; Berendt, C. Hermann 1817-1878, former owner.; Brinton, Daniel G. 1837-1899, former owner.

Subject:

Catholic Church -- Doctrines; Catholic Church; Kekchi language -- Grammar; Kekchi language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc; Kekchi language -- Texts; Pokonchi language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc; Pokonchi language -- Texts; Mayan languages -- Texts -- Early works to 1800; Indians of Central America -- Guatemala -- Languages -- Early works to 1800; Language and languages; Indians of Central America; Mayan languages; Pokonchi language; Kekchi language

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

catechisms; grammars (instructional materials); glossaries; sermons; Manuscripts, Spanish; controlled vocabularies; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

205 leaves : paper; 202-220 x 142-155 mm bound to 225 x 180 mm

Geographic Subject:

Guatemala -- Languages -- Early works to 1800; Guatemala

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from caption title (f. 1); a later title page in Berendt's hand, probably added at the time of binding, has the title Varios escritos en pocomchi y kekchi del Archivo Parroquial de Coban, Vera Paz (f. ii).; One of the documents bound into this volume is the original of Hippolito de Aguilera's Doctrina christiana from which Item 62 in this same collection was copied. There are also sermons by Aguilera bound into this volume.; The Kekchi grammar bound into this volume (ff. 97r-131v) is the original of Item 69 in this same collection, a fair copy by Berendt with additions and corrections; Pagination: Paper, 205; vi, 1-3, ii, 4-197; modern pencil foliation, lower right recto. The modern foliation, used in this record, includes the table of contents and a page of phrases (ff. 1-3), but the table of contents does not, so its references are consistently the modern foliation minus three leaves.; Binding: 19th-century half leather.; Origin: Written in Vera Paz, in the 18th century.; Kekchi and Pokonchi, with some Latin and Spanish.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 700 Item 68

Collection:

Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection