Vocabulario de la lengua de los indios de Boruca (Costa Pacífica de Costarica) / colectado por D[on] Felipe Valentini, 1862.

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Valentini, Philipp J. J. (Philipp Johann Josef), 1828-1899.

Contributor:

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

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

Language:

Central American Indian (Other)

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Boruca language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Boruca language.

Indians of Central America--Costa Rica.

Indians of Central America.

Costa Rica.

Costa Rica--Languages.

Language and languages.

Genre:

glossaries

Manuscripts, Spanish.

Manuscripts, Latin American.

Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Controlled vocabularies.

Penn 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).

Physical Description:

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

Contained In:

Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection. Item 153

Place of Publication:

[between 1862 and 1878]

Language Note:

Spanish and Boruca; preface in English.

Summary:

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.

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.

Cited in:

Described in Brinton, Daniel Garrison. Catalogue of the Berendt Linguistic Collection (Department of Archaeology and Paleontology, University of Pennsylvania, 1900), p. 29 (no. 153).

Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 679 (no. 167).

Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 68-70 (no. 388, document 16).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 153

OCLC:

537333693