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Doctrina christiana en pocomchi / escrita por Fr. Hippolito de Aguilera, predicador, cura de este partido de el pocomchi.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 700 Item 62
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Aguilera, Hippolito de.
- Language:
- Latin
- Mayan languages
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Catholic Church--Doctrines.
- Catholic Church.
- Pokonchi language--Texts.
- Pokonchi language.
- Mayan languages--Texts--Early works to 1800.
- Mayan languages.
- Indians of Central America--Guatemala--Languages--Early works to 1800.
- Indians of Central America.
- Language and languages.
- Guatemala--Languages--Early works to 1800.
- Guatemala.
- Genre:
- Codices.
- prayers (compositions)
- translations (documents)
- Manuscripts, Spanish.
- Texts.
- Penn Provenance:
- Copied from a manuscript in the Parochial Archives of Cobán (p. [iii]).
- From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page).
- Physical Description:
- 12 leaves : paper ; 211 x 133 mm bound to 216 x 141 mm
- Contained In:
- Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection. Item 62
- Place of Publication:
- [Cobán, Guatemala], [between 1874 and 1878?]
- Language Note:
- Pokonchi, with a preface in Spanish and headings in Spanish and Latin.
- Summary:
- A late 19th-century copy of Aguilera's 1741 manuscript giving Pokonchi translations of various foundational Catholic texts, including El Persignarse, Pater noster, Ave Maria, El Credo, Salve Regina, Praecepta Decalogi, Praecepta Ecclesiae, Septem Ecclesiae Catholicae Sacramenta, Articuli Fidei, and Beatitudines.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title and author from title page (p. [i]).
- The 18th-century manuscript from which this copy was made is in the same collection under the call number Ms. Coll. 700, Item 68 (see f. 12r).
- Pagination: Paper, [2 blank leaves], [iv, 1], 2-14, [1 blank leaf]; contemporary page numbers in ink, upper center.
- Script: In the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.
- Binding: 19th-century half leather.
- Origin: Copied in Cobán, Guatemala, probably between 1874 and 1878.
- Cited in:
- Described in Brinton, Daniel Garrison. Catalogue of the Berendt Linguistic Collection (Department of Archaeology and Paleontology, University of Pennsylvania, 1900), p. 16 (no. 62).
- Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 630 (no. 5).
- Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 42 (no. 65).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 62
- Contains:
- Lord's prayer. Pokonchi.
- Ave Maria. Pokonchi.
- Apostles' Creed. Pokonchi.
- Ten commandments. Pokonchi.
- OCLC:
- 155928134
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