Vocabulario de la lengua pocomam compilado de Gage y Scherzer / por C. H. B.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Berendt, C. Hermann (Carl Hermann), 1817-1878.

Contributor:

Gage, Thomas, 1603?-1656.

Scherzer, Karl, Ritter von, 1821-1903

Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899, former owner.

Language:

Mayan languages

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Pokomam language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Pokomam language.

Indians of Central America--Guatemala--Languages.

Indians of Central America.

Guatemala.

Language and languages.

Guatemala--Languages.

Genre:

glossaries

Manuscripts, Spanish.

Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Controlled vocabularies.

Penn Provenance:

From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page).

Physical Description:

10 leaves : paper ; 204 x 140 (155 x 110) mm

Production:

[New York], 1867.

Contained In:

Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection. Item 88

Language Note:

Spanish and Pokomam.

Summary:

A list of approximately 190 Spanish words grouped by subject, with approximately 140 Pokomam equivalents from Karl Scherzer's Sprachen der Indianer Central-Amerikas; Sprache der Indianer von Palin (Vienna, 1855) and 75 Pokomam equivalents from Thomas Gage's The English-American, his travels by sea and land; or a new survey of the West Indies (London, 1648). An introduction (p. 3-6) discusses the relationship between Pokomam and Pokonchi and lists communities in Guatemala speaking the two languages.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from title page (f. 2r).

Pagination: Paper, 10 f. ; pagination in ink, [ii, 1-3], 4-14, [iv], upper center.

Layout: Written in three columns of 25 lines, for Spanish, Pokomam words from Gage, and Pokomam words from Scherzer.

Script: Written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.

Binding: Marbled cardboard covers, split at center fold, with paper label on upper cover: Pocomam, Gage y Scherzer, 1640 y 1855.

Origin: Written in New York in 1867.

Cited in:

Described in Brinton, Daniel Garrison. Catalogue of the Berendt Linguistic Collection (Department of Archaeology and Paleontology, University of Pennsylvania, 1900), p. 20 (no. 88).

Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 681 (no. 174).

Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 73-74 (no. 409).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 88

OCLC:

249102977